applescript for OPML export

[Tom Wolfe]

Bill,

A gentleman named Fredrik Wallenberg has written a script that  
converts an OmniOutliner document to the pdfscreen LaTex slide  
format. It copies the outline to the clipboard and converts it. You  
might have some luck modifying it.

I am not a scripter, coder, or anything, but I was able to take the  
script and make the changes for the Beamer format. I've used it  
several times successfully. I did not change the LaTex preamble in  
the script. I pasted the clipboard into an empty Beamer document, and  
had to fine tune it. I've since moved on to S5. If you do get this  
working I'd be interested in trying it.  LaTeX seems  so 90s, but it  
probably suites my purposes as an educator better than XHTML.

Fredrik Wallenberg's script is at <http://sims.berkeley.edu/~fredrik/ 
files/OmniOut2pdfScreen.scpt.bin>

Tom Wolfe




On Mar 29, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Bill Rising wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I've put together a way to make an OmniOutliner document (with some  
> extra columns), export it to an OPML document, pass the OPML  
> document through an XSLT file to make a LaTeX file which then can  
> be used with the beamer style to make a nice presentation.[1] The  
> system right now is clumsy, because I have to do each step by hand.  
> I'd like to be able to write an applescript to do all the steps  
> with one click. Unfortunately, I'm stuck at the first step. I can't  
> figure out how to export the file as an OPML document from OO3. The  
> export method doesn't work (OPML isn't a choice), so what do I need  
> to do?
>
> I tried checking the old archives, but nothing there seemed to do  
> the trick.
>
> Any tips would be much appreciated,
>
> Bill Rising
> [1] Yes, this is too much effort --- actually I make an Rnw file so  
> that I can then run everything through R (a stats package) to make  
> the graphics needed for the presentation. This is what makes it  
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