Re: [O] [ANN] ELPA package for ODT and JabRef exporters
Jambunathan, I have tried to install this. I even created a blank .emacs file as you suggested. Everything appears to be fine with the exception of C-h v org-odt-styles-dir C-h v org-odt-schema-dir These do not appear as options for me. I'm not sure if that matters. Thanks, Aric
Re: [O] [ANN] ELPA package for ODT and JabRef exporters
Aric Gregson aorc...@mac.com writes: Jambunathan, I have tried to install this. I even created a blank .emacs file as you suggested. Everything appears to be fine with the exception of C-h v org-odt-styles-dir C-h v org-odt-schema-dir These do not appear as options for me. I'm not sure if that matters. Most likely that ODT backend is not loaded. Try this. 1. Configure org-export-backends and add ODT to it. 2. Put (setq org-odt-data-dir nil) at the start of Emacs. 3. Visit an Org file and export to ODT Now check the *Messages* buffer and the value of the above variables. Thanks, Aric
Re: [O] [ANN] ELPA package for ODT and JabRef exporters
This message SUPERSEDES instructions in the parent post (at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-01/msg01134.html) Elevator Pitch == I fixed few bugs in ELPA tarball (Thanks Benjamin). Adding the following URL to http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git/blob_plain/master:/ to C-h v package-archives should work now. WARNING: Don't forget the trailing / in the above URL. ELPA tar for ODT + JabRef = I have prepared an ELPA package org-odt-*.tar for easy distribution of bug fixes from private git repository [fn:1]. The package contains both ODT exporter and JabRef exporter. It also contains a standalone documentation (in both info and pdf format) for the ODT exporter. Pre-Requisites == Before installing the ODT tarball please ensure that you are using 1. org 8.0 2. Emacs 24.3.50 A good way to find out if you are running org 8.0 is to do this: M-x locate-library ox If you get a hit, then you are using org 8.0. If you don't find ox.el, you need to upgrade to org 8.0. The best way to upgrade to the most recent org is via package manager (i.e., M-x list-packages) Steps for installing ODT + JabRef ELPA package = 1. Clear out your .emacs. (Not needed, if you know what you are doing) 2. Ensure that you are using org 8.0 (See previous instructions) 3. Update your package archives to include the org-odt repo. (custom-set-variables '(package-archives (quote ((gnu . http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/;) (org-odt . http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git/blob_plain/master:/;) 4. Now do M-x list-packages Look out for org-odt package. Install it. 5. Goto start of .emacs and add the following line. (This should be the FIRST LINE in your .emacs) (setq org-odt-data-dir nil) 6. Check ON the ODT option under M-x customize-variable RET org-export-backends RET 7. Restart Emacs 8. Make sure that the following commands point to the ELPA directory M-x locate-library RET ox-odt RET M-x locate-library RET ox-jabref RET C-h v org-odt-styles-dir C-h v org-odt-schema-dir 9. Visit test.org and export it. Enjoy. Some existing gotchas and bugs wrt `org-odt-data-dir' = (5) above is needed to work around a bug in Emacs snapshot and Org build system. How to host the above files on your own ELPA server == If someone wants to distribute the above files, please put the following files in your web-server. 1. Copy org-odt-MMDD.tar 2. Copy archive-contents Hint for ELPA Hosting == See directory structure of http://orgmode.org/elpa/ 1. Various tar files are under that directory. 2. archive-contents points to the very LATEST tar file. http://orgmode.org/elpa/archive-contents ODT exporter and Copyright Issues and a Note to the Users = [fn:1] http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git The above repo. contains many bug-fixes and enhancements that are NOT available with Emacs-24.4 or Orgmode git repo. For some reasons, emacs-devel, Org developers and I don't meet eye to eye. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-12/msg00509.html. So the enhancements that are distributed with the above archive are unlikely to be avaible with Emacs or Org git repo. To the people who rely on ODT exporter for their day to day use and want it as part of Emacs 1. Find someone with Copyright Assignment to fix the critical issue(s). 2. Write to Gnu/Linux distributors - Debian, Gentoo etc - and persuade them to apply patches from my private repo before building the org-mode or Emacs deb packages. Note to Org developers == If anyone comes this far, let me note that Bastien's latest change to ox-odt.el resembles very much fix on my Org private repo. I would argue that this fix borrows very liberally from my un-assigned changes. So fill-in-the-blanks.
[O] [ANN] ELPA package for ODT and JabRef exporters
I have prepared an ELPA package org-odt-*.tar for easy distribution of bug fixes from private git repository [fn:1]. The package contains both ODT exporter and JabRef exporter. You need to make sure that you are using 1. org 8.0 2. Emacs 24.3.50 Steps for installing ODT + JabRef ELPA package = 1. Clear out your .emacs. (Not needed, if you know what you are doing) 2. Visit http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git/tree/master and download the a tar file named org-odt-MMDD.tar. (Click on the raw link) As of now, the file is available at: http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git/blob_plain/master:/org-odt-20140123.tar 3. M-x package-install-file RET path-to-org-odt-*.tar RET 4. Goto start of .emacs and add the following line. (It should be the first line in your .emacs) (setq org-odt-data-dir nil) 5. Check the ODT option under M-x customize-variable RET org-export-backends RET 6. Restart Emacs 7. Make sure that the following commands point to the ELPA directory M-x locate-library RET ox-odt RET M-x locate-library RET ox-jabref RET C-h v org-odt-styles-dir C-h v org-odt-schema-dir 8. Visit test.org and export it. Enjoy. Some existing gotchas and bugs = (4) above is needed to work around a bug in Emacs snapshot and Org build system. Wrt (2) and (3), I would have expected that the following (custom-set-variables '(package-archives (quote ((gnu . http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/;) (org-odt . http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git/blob_plain/master:/;) would suffice to do install via M-x list-packages. Unfortunately for some reasons package.el refuses to download the archive-contents located at http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git/blob_plain/master:/archive-contents. Any one interested in investigating this and if necessary file a bug report against Emacs. How to host the above files on your own ELPA server == If someone wants to distribute the above files, please put the following files in your web-server. 1. Copy org-odt-MMDD.tar 2. Copy archive-contents See directory structure of http://orgmode.org/elpa/ 1. Various tar files are under that directory. 2. archive-contents points to the very latest tar file. http://orgmode.org/elpa/archive-contents ODT exporter and Copyright Issues and a Note to the Users = [fn:1] http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-kjn.git The above repo. contains many bug-fixes and enhancements that are NOT available with Emacs-24.4 or Orgmode git repo. For some reasons, emacs-devel, org developers and I don't meet eye to eye. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-12/msg00509.html. So the above fixes are unlikely to be avaible with Emacs or Org git repo. To the people who rely on ODT exporter for their day to day use and want it as part of Emacs 1. Find someone with Copyright Assignment to fix the critical issue(s). 2. Write to Gnu/Linux distributors - Debian, Gentoo etc - and persuade them to apply patches from my private repo before building the org-mode or Emacs deb packages. Note to Org developers == If anyone comes this far, let me note that Bastien's latest change to ox-odt.el resembles very much fix on my Org private repo. I would argue that this fix borrows very liberally from my un-assigned changes. So fill-in-the-blanks.
