Re: Document conversion engine

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 00:25 +0100, Flavio Moringa wrote: > nice to ear from someone so "up the ranks" like you.. makes me feel > much more important :-) Ho hum; we try to avoid unpleasant hierarchy as much as possible. > I'll probably wont't be able to do a conversion engine by myself..

Re: Document conversion engine

2012-07-08 Thread Flavio Moringa
Hi Robinson, 2012/7/6 Robinson Tryon > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Flavio Moringa < > flavio.mori...@caixamagica.pt> wrote: > >> >> I know that you can convert documents through the command line, using >> LibreOffice headless mode, and that can be something that's useful for >> scripting aut

Re: Document conversion engine

2012-07-08 Thread Flavio Moringa
Hi Michael, nice to ear from someone so "up the ranks" like you.. makes me feel much more important :-) 2012/7/6 Michael Meeks > Hi Flavio, > > On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 11:45 +0100, Flavio Moringa wrote: > > my name is Flávio Moringa, I'm from Portugal and I'm starting my > > Masters Dissertation

Re: Document conversion engine

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Flavio, On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 11:45 +0100, Flavio Moringa wrote: > my name is Flávio Moringa, I'm from Portugal and I'm starting my > Masters Dissertation next September (Master in Open Source software - > http://moss.dcti.iscte.pt ). Welcome :-) > I'm not a programmer, so what I'm in

Re: Document conversion engine

2012-07-06 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Flavio Moringa < flavio.mori...@caixamagica.pt> wrote: > > I know that you can convert documents through the command line, using > LibreOffice headless mode, and that can be something that's useful for > scripting automatic tests... although I know that sometimes th

Re: Document conversion engine

2012-07-06 Thread Flavio Moringa
Hi Michael, first of all thanks for replying.. I was thinking no one would :-) >From your reply I assume that testing the filters, and doing regression tests is something I could do, maybe identifying the main conversion issues in groups of documents and kind of creating a "major conversion issue

Re: Document conversion engine

2012-07-05 Thread Michael Stahl
hi Flavio, On 03/07/12 12:45, Flavio Moringa wrote: > I chose as my masters dissertation investigation topic trying to improve > the document conversion engine in LibreOffice (ex: converting docx to > odt), and as such I would like to know who is working on the conversion > engines and how can I