Exporting ODT to Org [was Re: General advice beyond Org]

[edgar@openmail.cc]

On 2018-05-20 01:24, Samuel Wales wrote:
> perhaps we can start thinking about improving registration between 
> formats?

I don't really know what this means.

> if you export org [you posted to org mailng list] to a foreign format,
> you want your collaborator to be able to edit, save, send back without
> raising a sweat.

Not really, although it would be nice--and possibly titanic to do.

> now you have to integrate the changes.  you want to do this without 
> annoyance.
> 
> suppose you export comments in the foreign format that contain the
> equivalent of persistent markers.  you might or might not be willing
> to put org id or custom id on every heading, but there might be
> workarounds that are not so intrusive.  maybe your source can contain
> comments with markers.  dunno.

Every great project had to start somewhere (this sounds like that). 
However, if I am going to devote time to such a gigantic task, I would 
rather spend it trying to convert others to free software rather than 
doing favours to a closed format. I am not saying that it wouldn't be 
nice to have it.

> if your exported document is a subtree within a huge org file that you
> edit all the time, registration allows your software to identify that
> subtree, so you're not trying to change anything outside that subtree.
> that alone is a win.

This sounds like a project for people in LibreOffice or Pandoc. I think 
I will contact them to see if they are interested.

> 
> but maybe we can do more.  the markers can register sections or even
> paragraphs if you're doing intensive collaboration.  the tricky part
> might be getting standard tools to understand that the mapping of
> markers takes precedence over everything else.

Yes, big project.

> 
> details of this handwavey and possibly impossible brainstorm are left
> as an exercise for the reader.

LooooL! you remind me of books with notes such as "after deriving the 
equation one arrives to the following expression" :P !

Thank you.

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