Hacking OpenOffice

prostoalex writes "Peter Sefton appreciates OpenOffice Writer's open and documented XML format and hence tries to customize and configure OO Writer to his own liking. In the article on XML.com he plays with OpenOffice XML, introduces an XSTL style sheet to a Writer document, creates a keyboard shortcut for applying his own style, and creates a macro."

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Or you can use a scripting language...

[tcopeland]

...that has an Open Office object model, i.e., Ruby's OO4R:

ooo = OOo::Doc.new( filename )
new_text = "This is the NEW text added #{Time.new.to_s}"
ooo.insert( new_text );
res_ary = ooo.find( /NEW/ )
ooo.insert_heading( "This is the heading", 1 )
ooo.save

Waiting for the script templates or tools....

[Lumpy]

Here at work many of the users are switched over to OO.O except for the producers in the video department.

why? there are no scriptwriting tools for OO.o like there are for Word 97.

there are auto scriptwriter formatting plugins and two column scriptwriting templates and tools that make their life easy.

unfortunatlly nobody has released for sale or even attempted to write the equiliviant for OO.o.

we paid $29.95 to $49.95 each machine for those scriptwriting toolkits, and would happily pay the same for OO.o equiliviants.

but nobody is interested in making them.

Let alone a version of any wordprocessor geared to Scriptwriting. I know there will never ever be a "final draft" for linux released or even an open source project like it ever started. But I at least hold out some hope for scriptwriting tools for Open Office.org to come into existance someday.