Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > for some time I've noticed that the export to odt options were not > being offered in the export menu options (C-c E-c), even though I have > (require ox-odt) in my startup file. Attempts to evaluate ox-odt > manually failed with this error: >
Not sure what that means: do you mean "load"? > defconst: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil > > I've tracked the problem down to org-odt-lib-dir: > > (defconst org-odt-lib-dir > (file-name-directory load-file-name) > "Location of ODT exporter. > Use this to infer values of `org-odt-styles-dir' and > `org-odt-schema-dir'.") > > > from what I can tell, 'load-file-name' appears to be nil. Replacing > > (file-name-directory load-file-name) > > with a string like: > > "/home/matt/src/org-mode/lisp/ox-odt.el" > > fixes the problem for me, but that doesn't seem like a very robust > solution. I don't understand emacs internals very well, but is this > possibly a bug in ox-odt.el, or more likely something in my own > (poorly maintained) setup files? > load-file-name is a variable that's supposed to hold the full name of the file being loaded by `load'. It's going to be nil most of the time. It's only while a file is being loaded that it assumes a non-nil value. Try M-x load-file RET /path/to/ox-odt.el RET and see if you get an error. And maybe update org. -- Nick
