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, HTML5, EPUB 2or EPUB 3 using CSS2 to convert style information.

• Calc2xhtml converts OpenDocument spreadsheet documents to XHTML 1.0 strict, XHTML 1.1 or HTML5, using CSS2 to convert style information.

Although Writer2LaTeX is a general OpenDocument converter, it is primarily designed for use with LibreOffice2. You can use Writer2LaTeX

• ...as an extension 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 a Java Runtime environment, version 8 or later. Writer2LaTeX is developed and tested using OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net/)

This user's manual will explain how to install and use Writer2LaTeX.

Note: In this manual LO is used as an abbreviation of LibreOffice..