[setting is not read] (was: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc)

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

>>> "Eric" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

    > On Saturday, 17 Jun 2017 at 14:54, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
    > [...]

    >> According to `org-odt-convert-processes', `org-odt-convert-capabilities'
    >> and `org-odt-convert', isn't it already possible?

    > Indeed.  <blush>  Adding this

    >   (add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "ssconvert %i %o"))
    >   (setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")

Odd thing. I put these lines in my org_init.el file byte compile and
restart emacs but then
(org-odt-do-reachable-formats "csv") returns

Nil

I have to explicitly eval the two settings 

(add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "/usr/bin/ssconvert %i %o"))
(setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")


What do I miss? I could use customize of course, but I would like to
understand the problem.