Re: Curious: ODT reader

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

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My responses seem to be getting delayed or grey listed for several hours, 
so I'm just going to re-post directly from the Google Groups interface here 
(apologies if you receive a duplicate tomorrow):

On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 8:27:07 AM UTC-8, Jesse Rosenthal wrote:
>
> Hi Phillip, 
>
> I'm actually the author of the docx reader. I wrote it because I wanted 
> to use it. I'd guess that's the case for most of the readers in pandoc. 
>
> Which is to say that I don't think there's any technical limitation to 
> constructing such a reader. It would likely follow the same basic 
> pattern as the docx reader: unzip, parse, convert. It would in fact 
> probably be a bit easier than the docx reader because lists etc seem 
> much more sensible in ODT due to proper nesting. I just don't think 
> anyone has had sufficient desrie (or the combination of desire and 
> haskell chops) to make it happen. 
>
> By the way, before I wrote the docx reader, I prototyped it in python, 
> and wrote a python script that output pandoc json. If you don't want to 
> work in haskell you could look around for an ODT reader in another 
> language and go from there. 
>
> Best, 
> Jesse 
>

Hi Jesse,

That's very helpful context to have.

I have been looking at the other libraries here, 
http://www.opendocumentformat.org/developers/  … and I'd be curious to see 
an example of the "pandoc JSON" if you could point me to one (and/or your 
python prototype). 

It does look like an interesting problem to solve, haskell aside. ;) 
 However, the team I'm working with at the moment is quite small, and we 
are heavily committed (like everyone!).

I see that the idea of a "bounty" has been raised before on this list. Our 
project is well funded and this would be a worthwhile investment.

Before I go searching for someone to write this reader out in the wild, is 
there anyone on this list that would be interested in taking it on? If so, 
please drop me a note off-list.
Phillip. 

 

> Phillip Smith <phillip...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > On 2015-01-26, at 2:42 PM, Raniere Silva <ran...-Xhq86aZylhRTIXuwt5Zssw@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > 
> >> Hi Phillip, 
> >> 
> >>> I'm completely ignorant here, having just starting using pandoc, but 
> -- if 
> >>> it's not a waste of time to explain it to me -- I'd be curious to 
> >>> understand how an odt reader could be added. 
> >> 
> >> At src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/ you will find the source code of all 
> readers. 
> >> If you take a look at src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/Docx{/,.hs} you will see 
> the 
> >> source code of the DOCX reader. You can use it as a start point for the 
> ODT 
> >> reader. 
> > 
> > Hi Raniere, 
> > 
> > Many thanks for your response. I did have a look at the DOCX reader 
> earlier. 
> > 
> > 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? 
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance, 
> > 
> > Phillip. 
> > 
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