On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, zxq9 wrote:

> On 01/28/2013 03:17 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server?
>>  Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a
>>  Web Server
>>
>>  TIA
>
> No idea what features you are looking to implement, but if the goal is to 
> have your web server generate ODF files natively...
>
> I've found it a lot easier to generate ODFs directly from templates rather 
> than go through LibreOffice. I've written tools to do this for me from within 
> Django and Snap but haven't gone to the trouble to generalize (or clean up) 
> the solution. ODF turns out to be wonderfully easy to generate, parse, 
> manipulate, etc. and is now the only XML format that doesn't make me gag.
>
> This might not be at all the direction you are trying to head in, but if it 
> is a "generate docs/spreadsheets/charts/etc from source data" type problem 
> don't write off the idea of generating your own from an extension to your web 
> framework.

If you're looking into generating ODF output from a structured language 
(for documentation/publishing purposes) take a look at:

     http://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf

Unfortunately, Github broke native asciidoc support for the README, so 
you better read that from:

     https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/blob/master/README.asciidoc

Kind regards,
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