org-mode/contrib/odt

OpenDocumentText Exporter for Orgmode

• Summary
• Compatibility with Official Orgmode
• Implementation Details
• Notes for Reviewers and Fellow Developers
• Package Layout
• Obtaining OpenDocumentExporter
  • git checkout
  • Conventional tar
  • ELPA Tarball
• Test driving the Exporter
• Bug Reports and Feature Requests
• Possible Feature Enhacmentes
  • Support for fontification of babel blocks
  • Enhance table.el to support Odt format
  • Add support for exporting to odp
  • Support for generating MathML for LaTeX fragments
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • What features does the OpenDocumentExporter support?
  • Is OpenDocumentExporter part of Orgmode or Emacs?
  • How does it compare with official Orgmode
  • How can I export via command line?
  • How can I export to doc or docx format?
    • Install the converter program.
      • BasicODConverter
      • unoconv
    • Convert using new interactive functions
      • Export an Org buffer
        • Additional Note
      • Export an existing file
  • How can I apply custom styles?

Summary

This package adds support for exporting of Orgmode files to OpenDocumentText.

The latest version of this document is available at

Web page

http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-jambu.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/packages/README.html

Compatibility with Official Orgmode

This release is is as good as org-20110613 (git commit c4737ae) with only the following changes left out.

git commit	Description
2f50b1	add an alternate for inline images
49e6bc	Fix for html & docbook export of desc list items
a201b1	Fix HTML export of footnotes with lists, tables, quotes.
9f57b8	Mixed export of numbered and unnumbered sections in HTML
438536	Revert "Change underscores to hyphens in section labels"
33bae1	Revert "Fix markup problems when using references in source fragments"
fa12fe	Revert "org-html.el: Fix export of table.el tables."
f72541	Revert "HTML export – Allow to change the name of the global DIV"

Implementation Details

This package enhances Orgmode in the following manner:

1. A new line-oriented generic exporter
2. All new html exporter re-implemented as a plugin to (1).
3. A odt backend as a plugin to (1).

Feature (1) is provided by org-lparse.el. Feture (2) is provided by lisp/org-html.el. Feature (3) is provided by lisp/org-odt.el.

The new html exporter is feature-compatible with the official html exporter.

Notes for Reviewers and Fellow Developers

org-lparse is the entry point for the generic exporter and drives html and odt backends.

org-do-lparse is the genericized version of the original org-export-as-html routine.

C-h v org-lparse-native-backends is a good starting point for exploring the generic exporter.

Package Layout

• odt/README.org

• odt/lisp/

  org-lparse.el

  Generic line-oriented exporter

  org-xhtml.el

  All new XHTML exporter

  org-odt.el

  The OpenDocumentText backend

• contrib/odt/tests

  org-mode-unicorn.png

  test.org

  Sample files for validating the exporter

• contrib/odt/styles

  OrgOdtAutomaticStyles.xml

  The default styles.xml file used by the OpenDocumentText exporter.

  OrgOdtStyles.xml

  Automatic styles inserted in to content.xml

• odt/BasicODConverter/

  BasicODConverter-0.8.0.oxt

  OpenOffice extension for converting between various file formats supported by OpenOffice. A poor clone of unoconv.

  Filters.bas

  Main.bas

  StarBasic files that contribute to the above extension.

• odt/OASIS

  OpenDocument-v1.2-cs01-schema.rng

  Copy of

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cs01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cs01-schema.rng

OpenDocument-v1.2-cs01-manifest-schema.rng

Copy of

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/cs01/OpenDocument-v1.2-cs01-manifest-schema.rng

OpenDocument-schema-v1.1.rng

Copy of

http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/OpenDocument-schema-v1.1.rng

• odt/etc/schema

  od-schema-v1.1.rnc

  od-manifest-schema-v1.2-cs01.rnc

  od-schema-v1.2-cs01.rnc

  rnc files for above rng files. Generated using trang.

  schemas.xml

  schema location file for auto validating the XML files that form part of an OpenDocument file. Refer C-h f rng-set-schema-file-and-validate FILENAME and C-h f rng-what-schema.

  All the above files have been submitted for inclusing in Emacs proper. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-06/msg00671.html

Obtaining OpenDocumentExporter

The OpenDocumentExporter could be downloaded by one of the following methods:

git checkout

Checkout URL

http://repo.or.cz/r/org-mode/org-jambu.git

Web URL

http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-jambu.git/

Conventional tar

Download URL

http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-jambu.git/snapshot/HEAD.tar.gz

ELPA Tarball

Archive URL

http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-jambu.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/packages/

The tarball is distributed as an org-odt package (for example org-odt-20110519.tar).

You need to have an Org build >= org-20110626 for the exporter to function properly.

The most hassle-free way to download and install org-odt is through ELPA.

More help on all the above methods are available at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html.

Test driving the Exporter

Once the package is installed in to your load-path, use C-u M-x org-odt-unit-test to visit an example org file bundled with this package.

1. Use C-c C-e O to export the buffer to OpenDocumentText.
2. Use M-x org-lparse or M-x org-lparse-and-open for exporting to MS doc format.
3. Use M-x org-export-convert on a buffer visiting odt file.

Steps 2 and 3 require that a converter be installed on the system. See this FAQ entry for more information on this.

Misc. Info

This package re-implements HTML exporter as well. You will see the following warning message "Exporting to HTML using org-lparse…" while you are exporting using new HTML exporter.

Hint

If you are using BasicODConverter, you can use steps 2 and 3 for exporting an Org outline to presentation formats like OpenOffice Impress (odp) and Microsoft Powerpoint (ppt)

Know Issues

If you have dvipng installed it is possible that the exported odt file has embedded images clobbered. This is not a bug in the exporter but seems like a bug in the package installer. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2011-06/msg00445.html.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

Send in your bug report and feature requests to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org or to kjambunathan at gmail dot com.

Please search the Mailing List Archive - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/ for org-odt before posting a question or a request either to me or the mailing list.

Posting to mailing list is preferable. It is possible that your post helps another user out there.

Possible Feature Enhacmentes

TODO Support for fontification of babel blocks

May require enhancements to htmlfontify or htmlize packages.

TODO Enhance table.el to support Odt format

TODO Add support for exporting to odp

Use OpenOffice's File->Send->{Outline to Presentation | AutoAbstract to Presentation}. Also see

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Impress_Guide/Creating_slides_from_an_outline

TODO Support for generating MathML for LaTeX fragments

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-03/msg01755.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What features does the OpenDocumentExporter support?

At the moment, the exporter supports the following most commonly used features of Org

• Various Character Styles
• Various Paragraph Styles (including Source Blocks)
• Embedded ODT
• Embedded MathML
• Numbered, Bulleted and Description lists
• Embedding and Resizing of Images including embedding of LaTeX fragments
• Fuzzy, Dedicated and Radio Targets and Links
• Tables
• Footnotes
• Outline Numbering and Table Of Contents
• Special markups for elements like TODOs, Timestamps and Tags

The exporter is quite usable and stable.

Is OpenDocumentExporter part of Orgmode or Emacs?

Not yet. I have expressed my willingness to merge this package in to official Orgmode and thus to Emacs. The current maintainer of Orgmode - Bastien Guerry bzg at gnu.org - has agreed to consider the package for integration. If you are interested in having this package merged with Orgmode send your requests to the maintainer.

For the sake of record, I am the sole author of the changes included in this package and I am consenting to have this work or derivative works make it's way into Emacs proper. My FSF copyright assignment number is #618390.

How does it compare with official Orgmode

For information about the latest release see this. For general information refer http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-05/msg00751.html.

How can I export via command line?

See the following post http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-04/msg00952.html.

How can I export to doc or docx format?

Here are the steps.

Install the converter program.

There are numerous converters that are available: unoconv, PyODConverter, JODConverter etc etc.

org-odt is distributed with it's own converter BasicODConverter. It is Basic not only because it is implemented in StarBasic but is a a very basic clone of unoconv.

BasicODConverter

Install BasicODConverter as a OpenOffice Extension.

unoconv

If you prefer using unoconv as the converter add the following snippet to your .emacs.

  ;; not tested with unoconv
  (require 'org-html)
  (setq org-export-convert-process '("unoconv" "-f" "%f" "-o" "%d" "%i"))

Convert using new interactive functions

Export an Org buffer

Use M-x org-lparse or M-x org-lparse-and-open and follow the prompts. Use TAB for completion if you are not already using ido.

Additional Note

1. If you are using BasicODConverter you can export an Org file to odp or ppt formats.
2. You can convert csv files to xls format
3. OpenOffice doesn't ship with mediawiki or docbook export filters by default. So make sure that these extensions are installed before trying out these converters.

Export an existing file

Use M-x org-export-convert to convert an existing file.

How can I apply custom styles?

See this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-03/msg01460.html