Features
Version 1.0 handles the following.
Content
Feature | LaTeX | XHTML+MathML |
Characters/unicode and languages | Converts about 2000 unicode characters. Support for several symbol fonts: Zapf dingbats (pifont.sty), bbding (dingbats clone, bbding.sty), ifsym (various geometric shapes, ifsym.sty), wasysym (various symbols, wasysym.sty), eurosym (euro symbol, eurosym.sty) and tipa (phonetic symbols, tipa.sty). Also support for the WingDings and Symbol fonts in Microsoft Windows and for OOo's OpenSymbol font. Support for the following LaTeX inputencodings: ascii, latin1 (ISO-8859-1), latin2 (ISO-8859-2), cp1250 (Microsoft Windows latin 2/eastern european), cp1251 (Microsoft Windows cyrillic), koi8-r (latin/russian), iso-8859-7 (latin/greek) and utf8 (unicode, using Dominique Unruh's ucs.sty). Support for the following "babel" languages: English, bulgarian, czech, danish, ngerman, greek, spanish, finnish, french, irish, croatian, magyar, icelandic, italian, dutch, norsk, polish, portuges, romanian, russian, slovak, slovene, serbian, swedish, ukrainian. (If you need another language, please contact me.) | Full support for unicode, since XHTML uses unicode as well – but depends on fonts available at the local system. Supports all "western" languages, ie. languages with left-to-right layout. Support for bidirectional writing (CTL). |
Fields | Supports page references, references to headings, footnote references, endnote references, page number, page count. For other fields the current value is used. | For most fields the current value is used. Cross references are converted to hyperlinks.
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Hyperlinks | External and internal hyperlinks are supported. Limitation: Hyperlinks to headings are currently ignored. | External and internal hyperlinks are supported. Limitation: Hyperlinks to headings are currently ignored. |
Footnotes, endnotes | Complete support (endnotes are using endnotes.sty). | Complete support. Footnotes and endnotes are placed at the end of the document. Hyperlinks to/from footnotes and endnotes are added. |
Lists | Supports list up to four levels. | Full support. |
Tables | Complete support for the structure of the table, except for rowspan (cells spanning several rows). Table captions are supported. | Complete support for the structure of the table. |
Sections/master documents | Sections are only included if they are contained in the document (thus master documents are not supported). | Sections are only included if they are contained in the document (thus master documents are not supported). |
Indexes | Basic support for table of contents, alphabetical index and bibliography (including BibTeX support). | Basic support for table of contents, alphabetical index and bibliography. Adds suitable hyperlinks from/to the indexes. |
Formulas | Almost complete support for formulas. Also supports formulas created with OOoLaTeX. | Formulas are supported if the browser can render MathML. |
Graphics/images | Embedded graphics in png and jpeg format will be included if backend is pdftex. Also postscript images will be included if backend is dvips. A comment about other graphics is also included in the LaTeX file. If used as an export filter, Writer2LaTeX converts images to a suitable format. Figure captions are supported. | Supported if the browser can read the format of the picture. If used as an export filter, Writer2LaTeX converts images to a suitable format. |
Objects, applets, sound, video | If Writer2LaTeX is used as an export filter, objects are converted to graphics. The command line application ignores objects. Applets, sound and video are not supported. | If Writer2LaTeX is used as an export filter, objects are converted to graphics. The command line application ignores objects. Applets, sound and video are not supported. |
Meta data | Supported. | Supported. |
Formatting
Feature | LaTeX | XHTML+MathML |
Character formatting/styles | Font family (converted to a generic font family in LaTeX: rm, sf, tt), size, bold, italics, small caps, subscript, superscript, colour, language (for hyphenation), convert to lowercase and uppercase. Underlining and crossing out (using ulem.sty). | Supports most formatting attributes. |
Paragraph formatting/styles | Supports alignment, line spacing and margins. | Supports most formatting attributes. |
List formatting/styles | Complete support for labels, except images. Partial support for indents and label placement. | Rudimentary support for labels. |
Page formatting/styles | Margins, header- and footer separation, footnote separator line. Header and footer: Only first paragraph is exported (as one line). | Ignored. |
Frame formatting/styles | Not supported. | Supports most formatting attributes; but only rudimentary support for placement of frames. |
Table formatting | Supports column width and borders (always uses single borders). Also support for background color (using colortbl.sty). | Supports most formatting attributes. |
Section formatting (columns) | Supports number of columns (using multicol.sty ). | Ignored. |
Outline numbering | Complete support for numbering up to five levels. | Complete support for numbering up to six levels. |
Footnotes and endnotes configuration | Supports numbering and styles. | Supports numbering and styles. |
Line numbering | Not supported | Not supported |
Index formatting | LaTeX's default is used for table of contents, list of tables and list of figures. The bibliography is formatted as in the source document or using a BibTeX style selected by the user. | Uses the paragraph styles specified in the table of contents. The bibliography is formatted as in the source document. |