Re: Curious: ODT reader

[Phillip Smith <phillipadsmith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 10:10:31 AM UTC-8, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> +++ Phillip Smith [Jan 26 15 14:36 ]: 
> >Let me perhaps re-phrase my question: What have been the barriers that 
> have prevented an odt reader from being added before? 
> > 
> >I'm curious why so many readers are available, but not odt? Are there 
> obstacles that are well-known and hard to overcome? 
>
> No.  It has just been waiting for somebody to have an itch severe enough 
> to need scratching.  (Note that you might get decent results using 
> libreoffice to do HTML or docbook export, and running that through pandoc.) 
>

We need it to be scripted, so I'm not sure that would work... (I'm 
currently trying to find documentation for the lowriter library. Any 
pointers appreciated.)

Basically, we're working on a "book" of sorts in Github. However, many of 
the contributors and editors are not (yet) comfortable editing Markdown 
files. So we're working to rig up a simple workflow that listens for 
commits to the Github repository (using a web hook) and then generates 
what's needed, i.e., if the editor commits a .docx, a .md and .odt version 
of that file is generated and committed back to the repository.

This is working nicely for .md file and .docx files -- and, frankly, those 
are the main files being actively edited at the moment -- but I'm sure that 
some folks will prefer .odt and we'd like to have the workflow support that.
Phillip. 

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