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Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@nj.rr.BLOCK.spam.com> writes:

> launching Abiword
> or Open Office, then exporting, unless you run console mode

aren't those packages supposed to be scriptable?
anything scriptable can be controlled by emacs
(presuming the scriptability is rich enough).

thi