Features

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.)

In addition, XeTeX is supported, which provides full unicode support.

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, list items, 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.

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).

Also support for bibliographies generated by Zotero or JabRef.

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.