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org mode is a nice place to write a resume or quick white paper. It’s easy to embed sequence diagrams with plant uml. Then send it to html or pdf, but I’d like

org mode is a nice place to write a resume or quick white paper. It’s easy to embed sequence diagrams with plant uml. Then send it to html or pdf, but I’d like to have an export to ms word or google docs for sharing. I know you can copy and paste the html output, but the styling comes out wrong in word. I want the word default Title 1,2,3 styling.

mruts 7y ago
Pandoc supports conversion from org to ms word.
- globuous 7y ago
  And org exporter to odf which i assume gdpcs and word read by now !
- bachmeier 7y ago
  Just to expand on this, as a direct org -> docx conversion might not deliver what is desired, it's easy to create your own docx template for Pandoc. You can add a keyboard shortcut to call Pandoc using that template with the current file.
nnq 7y ago
> diagrams with plant uml ...any tip on getting that working faster? (it takes seconds!!!) I generally prefer to edit the plantuml markup and see the diagram update instantly (like ~<200ms) on the other half split. This is the workflow I have with VSCode + Markdown Preview Enhanced. I prefer org mode deeper structure instead of markdown, but this kinds of usability stuff (there's also horrible latex formulas rendering, a thousand small papercuts that are fixable but nobody has time for that). From a practical perspective nothing just works out-of-the box the way I want on Emacs, and I'm just to lazy to properly customize everything...
- cheez 7y ago
  Did you try disabling the splash screen?
- juki 7y ago
  I assume those seconds are mainly JVM startup time. The existing ob-plantuml doesn't support sessions, so it evaluates every code block in a new instance of plantuml. Seems to me like should be possible to use the `-pipe`-option for plantuml so that you can send multiple code blocks to the same instance via stdin and get the images back via stdout. That's probably what VSCode does, but it doesn't seem like anyone has bothered to write that for Emacs so far.
  - WhatIsDukkha 7y ago
    Yep most likely - https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/ob-plantuml.el https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/ob-pla... Seems like this might an opportunity for a graalvm build of plantuml... might be better then a server version but tbd. https://www.graalvm.org/ https://www.graalvm.org/

mruts 7y ago

Pandoc supports conversion from org to ms word.

globuous 7y ago
And org exporter to odf which i assume gdpcs and word read by now !
bachmeier 7y ago
Just to expand on this, as a direct org -> docx conversion might not deliver what is desired, it's easy to create your own docx template for Pandoc. You can add a keyboard shortcut to call Pandoc using that template with the current file.

nnq 7y ago

> diagrams with plant uml ...any tip on getting that working faster? (it takes seconds!!!) I generally prefer to edit the plantuml markup and see the diagram update instantly (like ~<200ms) on the other half split. This is the workflow I have with VSCode + Markdown Preview Enhanced. I prefer org mode deeper structure instead of markdown, but this kinds of usability stuff (there's also horrible latex formulas rendering, a thousand small papercuts that are fixable but nobody has time for that). From a practical perspective nothing just works out-of-the box the way I want on Emacs, and I'm just to lazy to properly customize everything...

cheez 7y ago
Did you try disabling the splash screen?
juki 7y ago
I assume those seconds are mainly JVM startup time. The existing ob-plantuml doesn't support sessions, so it evaluates every code block in a new instance of plantuml. Seems to me like should be possible to use the `-pipe`-option for plantuml so that you can send multiple code blocks to the same instance via stdin and get the images back via stdout. That's probably what VSCode does, but it doesn't seem like anyone has bothered to write that for Emacs so far.
- WhatIsDukkha 7y ago
  Yep most likely - https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/ob-plantuml.el https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/lisp/ob-pla... Seems like this might an opportunity for a graalvm build of plantuml... might be better then a server version but tbd. https://www.graalvm.org/ https://www.graalvm.org/