Re: [Docutils-users] Is rst2odt -l cs supposed to work?

[Dave K. <dku...@da...>]

Matěj,

I've got another fix for our issues.  You will need to evaluate them
yourself.

1. For language and region/country, now, with ODT writer, if you use
   the -l/--language command line option, then you must specify both
   language and country, for example, es_mx (Mexican Spanish), en-au
   (Australian English), and of course cs-cz.  This is because the
   ODT writer needs both, if it changes the language.  People have
   been fighting over whose language and/or religion is superior for
   hundreds of years.  I say, let them keep fighting; I'm not going
   to step in the middle of that.  If you go to UAM (Universidad
   Autónoma Madrid), I'm sure they will tell you that the default
   should be es-es; if you go to UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma
   de México) they will tell you the default should be es-mx.

   In a previous email, Günter Milde says:

        Docutils should accept and work with the generic tag "cs"
        and expand it to "cs-CZ" in cases where it would be
        misinterpreted as "cs-US" by some dumb back-end.

   But, I don't know how to do that in the general case.

2. Image size -- I've reworked this quite severely.  The ODT writer
   now tries to achieve a little consistency by converting all units
   to centimeters.  For your image, you might want to start with
   something like the following and adjust from there::

        .. image:: images/frantisek_xaversky.jpg
            :scale: 15%
            :align: center
            :alt: Svatý František Xaverský v Mikulášském chrámu

   The reason for the small scale factor is that your image is quite
   large.  The size returned by PIL (the Python Image Library)
   for your image (frantisek_xaversky.jpg) is 2448 X 3264.  That's
   pixels, I suppose.  The conversion factor that I found at
   http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/typography-ex.html
   is 1 px = 0.0264 cm.  So, for example, 2448 * 0.0264 * .15 =
   9.69 cm, which is a reasonable starting width for your image on a
   page, and you can adjust from there.

I've attached a new version of docutils/writers/odf_odt/__init__.py
to a separate message.  Please let me know what you think.

Dave K.
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