Re: [Docutils-users] SVG images in ODT (was: Does the doctree reader work?)

[Matěj C. <mc...@ce...>]

On Mon Feb 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM CET, Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:
> Did you try it?

Yes, see `tests/`.

> I was stopped by a missing dependency documentation (which "odg" package or
> module is used?).

https://pypi.org/project/odfpy/ … there is no other one, AFAIK.

> Docutils currently can be installed without any dependency except Python.

Yes, that’s a problem. I usually hate dependencies as well (see the long
list of dependencies for M2Crypto,
https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/m2crypto/tree/master/item/setup.cfg ;)). We
could make it into an optional dependency, but I think that manipulating
OpenDocument files is such nasty business, that perhaps it is not out of
the question. Patches to remove the dependency would be more than
welcome, of course!

> We may consider "light" dependencies for core services (like
> "romannumerals" for rST parsing). However, adding a large dependency for
> a rarely used feature like ODT export is not planned.
> (We may provide SVG - ODT "on the fly" as an "optional" feature similar to
> syntax highlighting with Pygments.)

Yes, the RPM package is 1.4 MiB installed. I am not sure what’s The
Right Thing™ here. Yeah, I think that some kind of `pip install
docutils[odt]` could be helpful, but I am not much happier about it
either.

Best,

Matěj

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