+1 to get doxia to support odt

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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
>>
>>
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