From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:37:31 +0530 Message-ID: <81pqscwf70.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87hbduhno4.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjxa2xao.fsf@member.fsf.org> <878vz1dsox.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294199555 21431 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 03:52:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 03:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo Horn , monkey@sandpframing.com, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 04:52:29 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaKQF-0003pp-St for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:52:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaKQE-0000CC-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59672 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaE6e-00069I-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:07:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaE6c-0002dS-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth22.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.44]:57315) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaE6c-0002bZ-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:07:46 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 31983 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2011 21:07:43 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (122.174.101.158) by smtpauth22.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.44) with ESMTP; 04 Jan 2011 21:07:42 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:36:25 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:52:23 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134272 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > > Is it feasible to implement of saving a buffer with formatting in ODF > > using this feature? That would be really great. > > No. DocView is only a viewer for a large set of document formats. > Internally, every page of a document is converted to a PNG image that is > shown in an emacs buffer. > > Is there any chance of extracting the text as text > with markup in a format that Emacs could handle? Like Orgmode, for example? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OpenDocument Above link talks of odf-mode and odt2org. Not so long ago, I had used odf-mode and was quite unhappy with the text extraction it was doing. I haven't tried odt2org though. Jambunathan K.