1 Introduction
1.1 What is Writer2LaTeX?
Writer2LaTeX is a utility to convert OpenDocument text and spreadsheet documents – in particular documents containing formulas – into other formats.
Actually it is 4 converters in one:
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Writer2LaTeX converts OpenDocument text documents to LaTeX 2e, and works together with:
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Writer2BibTeX extracts bibliographic data from an OpenDocument text document and converts it to BibTeX format.
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Writer2xhtml converts OpenDocument text documents to XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1 + MathML 2.0, using CSS2 to convert style information.
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Calc2xhtml converts OpenDocument spreadsheet documents to XHTML 1.0 strict, using CSS2 to convert style information.
The old file formats for OpenOffice.org 1.x (or StarOffice 6/7) Writer and Calc documents are also supported.
Although Writer2LaTeX is a general OpenDocument converter, it is primarily designed for use with OpenOffice.org/StarOffice You can use Writer2LaTeX
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...as a command line utility, independent of OpenOffice.org/StarOffice.
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...as an export filter for OpenOffice.org 2.x, StarOffice 8 or NeoOffice 2.01.
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...from another Java program.
This user's manual will explain how to install and use Writer2LaTeX.
Writer2LaTeX is a Java application, and thus should work on any platform that supports Java. You need Sun's Java 2 Virtual Machine (Runtime Environment), version 1.4 or 1.5. You can download this from http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html. AFAIK Writer2LaTeX doesn't run (unmodified) under any other Java interpreter.
Note: In this manual OOo is used as an abbreviation of OpenOffice.org/StarOffice/NeoOffice.
1 If you want to use Writer2LaTeX as an export filter in older versions, please use version 0.4.