1 Introduction
1.1 What is Writer2LaTeX?
Writer2LaTeX is a utility to convert OpenDocument text and spreadsheet documents1 – in particular documents containing formulas – into other formats.
Actually it is a collection of four converters:
Writer2LaTeX converts OpenDocument text documents to LaTeX 2e, and works together with...
Writer2BibTeX which extracts bibliographic data from an OpenDocument text document and converts it to BibTeX format.
Writer2xhtml converts OpenDocument text documents to XHTML 1.0 strict, XHTML 1.1, XHTML 1.1 + MathML 2.0 or EPUB using CSS2 to convert style information.
Calc2xhtml converts OpenDocument spreadsheet documents to XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1, using CSS2 to convert style information.
Although Writer2LaTeX is a general OpenDocument converter, it is primarily designed for use with LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice. This manual assumes that you use LibreOffice, but most will apply to Apache OpenOffice as well. You can use Writer2LaTeX
...as an export filter for LibreOffice.
...as a command line utility, independent of LibreOffice.
...as a Java library providing conversions from OpenDocument for other Java programs.
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 5 or later. You can download this from http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html. Writer2LaTeX has not been tested with other java implementations.
This user's manual will explain how to install and use Writer2LaTeX.
Note: In this manual LO is used as an abbreviation of LibreOffice.
1 In addition, Writer2LaTeX supports the old file formats for OpenOffice.org 1.x Writer and Calc.