Re: [O] org-odt: command line options for soffice bug?

[Ista Zahn]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Vinh Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Vinh Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was having issues exporting to a "doc" file with this in my init file:
>> (setq org-export-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
>>
>> After some debugging, it appears my "soffice" command takes a single
>> dash (-), not double dash (--) for command line arguments.  When I
>> change to
>>
>> "soffice -headless -convert-to %f%x -outdir %d %i"
>>
>> in org-odt.el, things seem to work.  I am running org-mode 7.9.3e on
>> Emacs 24.1.50.1 and LibreOffice 3.3.4 on Ubuntu 11.04.  Not sure if
>> this is specific to me or not, but it should be fixed in org-mode.
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Just checked LibreOffice on my Mac OS X, and it uses two dashes for
> arguments.  Weird that LibreOffice on Ubuntu uses one dash.  Can
> anyone else confirm?  I guess the emacs function should determine the
> current OS to decide whether to use single or double dash for command
> line arguments...

LibreOffice 3.6 on archlinux uses double dash.

-Ista

>
>> -- Vinh
>