Re: Video showing Jambunathan's ODT exporter

[Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com>]

Hi,

> This is some seriously cool functionality for Org that deserves wider exposure.
> Jambunathan's done a great job.

Yep I tried it a few days ago and the results were nearly perfect.

> It's obviously not for everyone; I'm sure some Org users have no need for
> documents in a word processor and steer as far away as possible.  Others may
> love it, though, and it could potentially bring more users to Org community.

Well it becomes particular important if it comes to collaboration with 
MS-Office people. I can write my stuff in org and make a LaTeX export 
for the final submission, however, I can send co-authors ODT (and by 
resaving doc) formats to allow them to make changes and comments to the 
manuscript.

> I've seen comments about an ODT import that I haven't had a chance to look
> into yet.
>

Well this is the exact point which is missing now. For now, I open the 
resubmitted modified ODT version on my PC and make all changes 
accordingly in my org-file. Thanks to a dual screen set-up it is rather 
ok. However, still very error prone.

Having the possibility to re-import the ODT-file into org and make a 
kind of diff which I simply step through and either agree or disagree 
would be perfect. Emacs already has diff functionallity. What would be 
needed is a way to re-import the ODT-file in a as much as possible exact 
way like it was originally.
The ODF format is open and I wonder whether there is some kind of 
metadata tag, which could be used to save the org-mode stuff directly 
beside the odt text stuff... this would allow to restore the org-mode 
file rather efficiently.

Pseudo code:

<metadata> *** DONE This is a subsubsub-header :COAUTHOR:  <\metadata>
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> Cheers,
>
> Herb
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