From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Anderson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to convert .doc to txt Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:27:07 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1068578827.4138.1.camel@hades.syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com> References: <7eoevidddl.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068580795 27873 80.91.224.253 (11 Nov 2003 19:59:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 11 20:59:52 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJeg4-0004Es-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:59:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AJfOQ-0007FT-MT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AJfM8-0006vS-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:43:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AJfBn-0004ws-VL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:33:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.246.36.112] (helo=torre.pghoster.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AJf7r-0004Ej-Ar for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from 192.0.0.253 (syr-24-59-76-83.twcny.rr.com [24.59.76.83]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by torre.pghoster.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hABJR9v10767; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:27:10 -0600 Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-Reply-To: <7eoevidddl.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14077 On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:27, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > Bruce Ingalls 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). If you knew what you were doing you could crack open the source, make some modifications and recompile openoffice to take command line options like: oofficce --convert --from ./foo.doc --to ./foo.txt Of course, FAIK, it's already included in the code. Check out the documentation for OpenOffice for more details. -Dan