Hello, I recently used the maven site plugin for the first time, and really liked it. I however came to dislike the APT format rather quickly. I spent far too much time manually reformatting my paragraphs to make the source readable. I felt that it would be very nice to be able to document in Open Office and still be able to generate a site and a PDF with maven-pdf-plugin, so I took a look at the ODT format and it turned out to be rather simple and easy. So I wrote a maven plugin I called maven-odt2apt-plugin. It currently supports everything in APT with the exception of tables. It requires an APT.ott template file defining the APT styles which must be used in the open office document. Links and images are also supported. When you work in Open Office you get something that is not 100% identical, but very similar to the end result.
If you define the plugin to run in the "pre-site" phase and put your odt documents in src/site/odt and then do "mvn site" it will go all the way from your odt document to a site. The plugin is released as open source under that Apache 2.0 license, and can be found on sourceforge: http://odt2apt.sf.net/. I inform about this since at least I find it hard to find and know about all free software out there, and I believe that I'm not alone in disliking working directly with APT. I though that there might be others out there that might be interested in this plugin, and this is the right place to inform about it. Best Regards, Tommy Svensson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
