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From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: "L.C. Karssen" <lennart@karssen.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [BUG][ODT] ODT_STYLES_FILE not read as a list
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:35:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2fyxlpl.fsf@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1fb5458b-43b7-e414-ce73-08d011339ccb@karssen.org>


I believe the need to use quotation marks around the style file name was
removed at some point, and the manual is out of date. Instead of

 #+ODT_STYLES_FILE: "template.ott"

the manual ought now to read:

 #+ODT_STYLES_FILE: template.ott

Yours,
Christian

L.C. Karssen writes:

> Hi list,
>
> Not sure if this is related (or fixed with the aforementioned patch)
> because I'm not using a list for the ODT style file.
>
> Today, after upgrading from Org 9.1.13 (actually installed from melpa on
> 20180625) to melpa version 20181105 exporting to ODT stopped working. In
> my org file the style file name was enclosed in double quotes (as
> specified in the manual [1]):
>
> #+ODT_STYLES_FILE: "template.ott"
>
> The error message is:
>
> OpenDocument export failed: Invalid specification of styles.xml file:
> "\"template.ott\""
>
> Removing the quotes fixes the export to ODT.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lennart.
>
> [1] https://orgmode.org/org.html#Applying-custom-styles
>
>
> On 05-11-18 09:49, Christian Moe wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Nicolas!
>>
>> I'll test on my end when it shows up in ELPA.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Christian
>>
>> Nicolas Goaziou writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> It seems the ODT exporter currently fails to read the ODT_STYLES_FILE
>>>> option as a list, as in this example from the manual
>>>> ([[info:org#Applying custom styles]]):
>>>>
>>>>   #+ODT_STYLES_FILE: ("/path/to/file.ott" ("styles.xml" "image/hdr.png"))
>>>>
>>>> This is needed if you want a complex style with e.g. an image in the
>>>> header.
>>>>
>>>> Exporting this causes an "Invalid specification of styles.xml file"
>>>> error on my recent ELPA version. The problem seems to be that the option
>>>> is treated as a string and never tested to see if it contains a list.
>>>>
>>>> To reproduce the problem, place the attached documents
>>>> odt-styles-test.org and odt-test-styles.odt in the same directory, then
>>>> export odt-styles-test.org to ODT. The result should have a unicorn in
>>>> the letterhead.
>>>>
>>>> The below quick-and-dirty patch seems to fix it, but I'm sure there's a
>>>> better approach.
>>>
>>> Thank you. I applied your patch with an additional check: the value should
>>> be enclosed within round brackets.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-06 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-30 20:47 [BUG][ODT] ODT_STYLES_FILE not read as a list Christian Moe
2018-10-30 20:49 ` Christian Moe
2018-11-04 22:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-11-05  8:49   ` Christian Moe
2018-11-06 15:18     ` L.C. Karssen
2018-11-06 15:35       ` Christian Moe [this message]
2018-11-06 16:15         ` L.C. Karssen
2018-11-07  8:28           ` Christian Moe
2018-11-07 15:32             ` L.C. Karssen
2018-11-10  8:16               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-11-19 17:21                 ` L.C. Karssen
2018-11-19 22:58                   ` Nicolas Goaziou

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