Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>    > If there's another way to do the job, it might be better.
>
>    The reason I chose unoconv/OO.org is that it required only a few lines
>    of elisp to allow for viewing anything OO.org can read inside emacs.
>
> It seems reasonable to me.  In principle, writing ODF support in Emacs
> Lisp would be preferable, but that's a gigantic job and it might run
> too slowly.
>
> Anyway, even if this implementation is not ideal, it has the virtue of
> existing.  So we may as well install it.  If another method is
> implemented later, we could install that too.
>
> Is it feasible to implement of saving a buffer with formatting
> in ODF using this feature?  That would be really great.


Might be good to know that there at least soon will be an exporter
from org-mode to .odt files. Jambunathan has been working on this.