+1 to get doxia to support odt -D
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Lukas Theussl <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't browse your source repository as I don't have hg but it sounds like > it should be easy now to turn this into a more general doxia parser. You > don't have to go via apt to generate your site/pdf, just parse your odt into > a general sink instead of an apt, then any plugin (site/pdf/other...) can > use it directly to generate any doxia-supported output format, without any > coupling to the apt format. In other words, odt would be an equal citizen in > the list of maven documentation input formats (apt, xdoc, confluence...). If > you are interested, attach a patch to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/DOXIA, > I would be happy to review and apply it. > > Cheers, > -Lukas > > > Tommy Svensson wrote: >> >> 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] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
