Re: ox-odt: List items contain body paragraphs, confusing styles

[James Harkins <jamshark70@zoho.com>]

On August 20, 2017 18:13:13 Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, instead of creating a new style, wouldn't some
> standard style be enough, e.g., "Text_20_body_20_indent"?
>
> Also, what happens in the following cases
>
>     - ...
>
>       #+begin_quote
>       Quoted paragraph
>       #+end_quote
>
>       #+begin_center
>       Centered paragraph
>       #+end_center
>
> Should the use "Quotations" and "OrgCenter", which inherit from
> "Text_20_body", or some new style inheriting from the one dedicated to
> text in plain lists?

Interesting questions -- however, I'm leaving tomorrow for a week's 
holiday. So I won't get to this for awhile.

I should also say: This is the first time I've needed the ODT exporter for 
anything serious. So, I shouldn't be taken as any sort of authority on how 
the styles "should" work. I'm reporting behavior that seemed odd to me and, 
to the extent that I have time, I don't mind prowling around in the ODT 
data structures to see what is going on inside. That's about the extent of 
what I can do. I'm not affiliated with LibreOffice in any way... In fact, I 
quite dread using it. TBH I prefer exporting to LaTeX, but it's a 
humanities journal and they don't understand about superior technology :D

That said, I'm not sure why those cases would be challenging. In the normal 
list item case, you have a list item node enclosing one or more paragraph 
nodes. In the cases you mentioned, the list item node would contain a quote 
block or centered block node. As I understand the exporter, the depth-first 
traversal would encode the child nodes normally, and pass the encoded 
result up to the list item parent. My observation of LO is that it tries to 
merge properties from the list style and paragraph style, which it would do 
if it's centered, block quote or whatever. So my guess is, do nothing 
special for these cases. But that's a guess.

hjh

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