Le 07/07/2013 20:14, Dag Wieers a écrit :
Question : Can we set ODF document properties from asciidoc source using
asciidoc-odf ? Some of my documents use them in page footers. In
practice,
exact footer text (and document subtitle) definitely needs to be
different
in different documents: it includes a kind of document ID currently
fetched
using an ODF document property.
There are two ways to do this.
- You make use of an ODF stylesheet when producing an .fodt file
- You make use of an ODF template to produce a real .odt file
The first one works best if you prefer to tinker with the file by
hand, the second one works best if you like to tinker with the
look&feel using LibreOffice. The first method gives the most
possibilities (as the LibreOffice interface does not give 100% control
of what ODF can do).
I use the first method, the second method, while it should work has
not been tested as much and probably could use some more work to get
it finished.
The other benefit of the first method is that it generates an .fodt
(Flat ODT file) that you can inspect using a text-editor. Once
modified with LibreOffice to your liking, you can copy over the
important changes back into the ODT stylesheet for future document
output. So once your stylesheet is as you want it to look, you can
reuse the stylesheet for all future (and older) AsciiDoc files.
Thanks for your explanation, which if I understand covers the backend
part, not the front. Let me take an example.
Expected workflow
The expected way would be to add in asciidoc source
= My invoice title
:lang: en
:Ref_devis: abc123
:invoiceid: def456
And have asciidoc-odf generate something like :
<meta:user-defined meta:name="*Ref_devis">abc123*</meta:user-defined>
(...)
<style:master-page style:name="Standard" style:page-layout-name="Mpm1">
<style:footer> <text:p text:style-name="MP1"> réf. devis n°
<text:user-defined style:data-style-name="N0"
text:name="*Ref_devis">ABC123*</text:user-defined> Page
<text:page-number
text:select-page="current"/>/<text:page-count>1</text:page-count>
</text:p> <text:p text:style-name="MP1">...Legal stuff...</text:p>
</style:footer> </style:master-page>
The "document properties" approach, from existing
I got the code from git (will report some glitches separately) and ran
asciidoc -b odt README.asciidoc .
The generated file contains :
<meta:user-defined meta:name="author">Dag Wieers</meta:user-defined>
<meta:user-defined meta:name="email">[email protected]</meta:user-defined>
which seem to come from
:author: Dag Wieers
:email: [email protected]
but if I add another attribute, e.g. :quoteid: abc123, it won't get
included in fodt output.
curriculum-vitae-dag-wieers.txt contains :
:linux-experience: {sys:echo $(( $(date +%Y) - 1995))}
I wish curriculum-vitae-dag-wieers.fodt would contain :
<meta:user-defined meta:name="linux-experience">18</meta:user-defined>
But it didn't.
Looking at source code I see in odt.conf :
<meta:user-defined meta:name="author">{author}</meta:user-defined>
<meta:user-defined meta:name="email">{email}</meta:user-defined>
<meta:user-defined meta:name="version">{version}</meta:user-defined>
So, it looks like in current code author, email and version can be
user-defined document properties.
Including the others would need to make a loop turning more
asciidoc-level properties into ODF-level meta:user-defined.
The asciidoc string substitution approach
Another solution might work : drop user-defined document properties
altogether and just use asciidoc-based string substitution. Just put in
asciidoc some header like :
and try method 1 or 2 that you described, like putting a footer section
with {invoiceid}.
But I'm fearing that :
* it may work ok with method 1 (not tested)
* it would only work once with method 2, because after the document is
edited and saved in LibreOffice, the substituted value becomes the
constant def456, losing the reference to invoiceid.
What do you think ?
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