Re: Bug#406495: ITP: odt2txt -- simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text

[Frederic Peters <fpeters@debian.org>]

Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:

> With odt2txt you just need to run "odt2txt file.odt" and you will get
> the text output from it.

I have been piping odf2html (from odfreader package) into lynx to get
similar effect.  I just tested odt2txt and the output is roughly
similar; but odt2txt seems much slower (but I just tested it against
one file).


> I am not a mutt guru, but I think that it might be easy to run odt2txt
> on an attached .odt file. (sincerely I don't know how to do this; my
> mutt acknowledge is very limited)

It will be easy, with a mailcap entry like that (untested):
  application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; odt2txt %s; copiousoutput


Regards,

        Frederic