Brandon Taylor writes:
I know we’re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary
software in FOSS communities like this one, but I can’t help but
wonder if someone might consider making (an) Emacs plugin(s)
that
allow(s) a user to export Org mode files to Microsoft Office
file
formats
Hi Brandon,
* Brandon Taylor wrote:
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> I know we=92re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary software =
> in FOSS
Actually, I've decided to go with your earlier recommendation of using WSL now
that it supports GUI apps like Emacs. Doing the export act gives me a very
elegant (albeit somewhat crowded) ODT file, like this --
https://www.dropbox.com/s/16dhity67rtdwyp/belvoire.odt?dl=0
That error would tend to indicate there is a problem with the way the
file uri is being encoded. This could either be a bug or it could be due
to an error in your configuration or possibly the original org file your
trying to encode. Unfortunately, in that backtrace output, I cannot see
the full
Here's the generated backtrace after doing M-x toggle-debug-on-error and then
trying to do export on Windows.
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (rng-uri-error "Bad escapes in URI
‘file:///c:/Program%20Files/Ema...")
signal(rng-uri-error ("Bad escapes in URI ‘file:///c:/Program%20Files/Ema..."))
On 2021-06-26, at 22:12, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 09:49:02PM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>>
>> On 2021-06-26, at 21:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 04:27:19PM +, Brandon Taylor wrote:
>> >> I’ve seen that LibreOffice can read and
The reason why someone would want to do this is that most corporate
environments literally force you to use products like the MS Office Suite.
I can only see that as a benefit to be able to export to whatever you want.
is it perfect?
Probably not, but at least the option exists.
I feel that
I know we’re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary
software in FOSS communities like this one, but I can’t help but wonder
if someone might consider making (an) Emacs plugin(s) that allow(s) a
user to export Org mode files to Microsoft Office file formats such as
.docx, .xlsx and the
Brandon Taylor writes:
> Okay. Well, I've gone ahead and installed LibreOffice, which took care of the
> "missing 'soffice'" problem, but like a frustrating game of Whac-A-Mole,
> another problem popped up. Now I'm left high and dry as to what might have
> happened, because after adding the
Okay. Well, I've gone ahead and installed LibreOffice, which took care of the
"missing 'soffice'" problem, but like a frustrating game of Whac-A-Mole,
another problem popped up. Now I'm left high and dry as to what might have
happened, because after adding the location of soffice.exe in my
For anyone who has never tried it, I'll add that the open office formats
are an absolute beast to export to. I can't say for sure about docx but
I've done my time building a PowerPoint exporter (on top of Microsoft
provided ooxml libraries even). It is complex enough that I'm not even sure
such an
Brandon Taylor writes:
> I know we’re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary software in
> FOSS communities like this one, but I can’t help but wonder if someone
> might consider making (an) Emacs plugin(s) that allow(s) a user to export Org
> mode files to Microsoft Office file
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 09:49:02PM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
> On 2021-06-26, at 21:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 04:27:19PM +, Brandon Taylor wrote:
> >> I’ve seen that LibreOffice can read and write to those formats, whereas
> >> OpenOffice can only read
On 2021-06-26, at 21:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 04:27:19PM +, Brandon Taylor wrote:
>> I’ve seen that LibreOffice can read and write to those formats, whereas
>> OpenOffice can only read them. Or has OpenOffice overcome that particular
>> barrier?
>
> I think
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 04:27:19PM +, Brandon Taylor wrote:
> I’ve seen that LibreOffice can read and write to those formats, whereas
> OpenOffice can only read them. Or has OpenOffice overcome that particular
> barrier?
I think OpenOffice is practically dead. All interesting development
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 02:57:17PM +, Brandon Taylor wrote:
> Okay. Well, I’m running Emacs on (boo, hiss) [...]
Now we would boo and hiss much less if you could teach your
software to not make such a blatant propaganda of itself:
> Sent from
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Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2021 10:49 AM
To: Brandon Taylor<mailto:donnie126_2...@hotmail.com>
Cc: Bruce D'Arcus<mailto:bdar...@gmail.com>;
org-mode-email<mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Office?
Yes, that’s the place to start (and f
Yes, that’s the place to start (and finish in a FOSSy way)
> On Jun 26, 2021, at 9:29 AM, Brandon Taylor
> wrote:
>
> Okay, I got that working, but now I’ve run into another error complaining
> about a missing “soffice.” So that means I need to install either Apache
> OpenOffice or
ilto:bdar...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2021 10:01 AM
To: Brandon Taylor<mailto:donnie126_2...@hotmail.com>
Cc: org-mode-email<mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Office?
IDK myself, as I don't use Windows. But th
Hello,
Brandon Taylor writes:
> I know we’re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary
> software in FOSS communities like this one, but I can’t help but
> wonder if someone might consider making (an) Emacs plugin(s) that
> allow(s) a user to export Org mode files to Microsoft Office
there is some code at
https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/ox-word.el that does an ok
job with pandoc. It isn't perfect though, and I don't think it ever will
be.
John
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Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his)
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical
IDK myself, as I don't use Windows. But this looks helpful?
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53957/how-to-fix-the-error-executable-zip-needed-for-creating-opendocument-files-w
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 10:57 AM Brandon Taylor
wrote:
> Okay. Well, I’m running Emacs on (boo, hiss)
ink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10
From: Bruce D'Arcus<mailto:bdar...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2021 9:54 AM
To: Brandon Taylor<mailto:donnie126_2...@hotmail.com>
Cc: org-mode-email<mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Off
Oops; it does.
https://orgmode.org/manual/OpenDocument-Text-Export.html
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 10:54 AM Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> MS Office supports OpenDocument, so that might be better path for org to
> support.
>
> I've wondered myself why it doesn't already support it.
>
> On Sat, Jun 26,
MS Office supports OpenDocument, so that might be better path for org to
support.
I've wondered myself why it doesn't already support it.
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 10:48 AM Brandon Taylor
wrote:
> I know we’re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary software
> in FOSS communities like
I know we’re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary software in
FOSS communities like this one, but I can’t help but wonder if someone might
consider making (an) Emacs plugin(s) that allow(s) a user to export Org mode
files to Microsoft Office file formats such as .docx, .xlsx and
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