[ug-bosug] Re: SXW to Doc convertor

[Venky]

> > What I would really like is a generic library (and maybe some small
> > utilities) which can read and write ODF files.  A lot of times,
> > I would like to read ODF files without having to open them up in
> > StarOffice or OpenOffice, like for example, from my console-based
> > mail client.  Being able to generate an ODF document from the
> > command-line would also be extremely useful.  Would make for a good
> > project, IMO.
> 
> I would like to see something like tex/latex/(custom markup)
> translator to ODF. In a totally benign incident I was trying to
> convert my ascii only resume to odt with the least amount of
> pain. Turns out (to my knowledge) there is no avoiding opening
> the GUI to make something bold or italicized.
> 
> Even if it understood only *bold*, /italic/ and _underlined_
> that would be usable.

Yup!  Another application for this library!  Something like
a wiki-markup to ODF convertor.  Should be simple to implement once
the ODF library is ready.

Pushkar, interested in this as a project?

Venky.
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