1 Introduction

1.2 More about Writer2LaTeX and Writer2BibTeX

Writer2LaTeX is quite flexible: It can take advantage of several LaTeX packages, such as hyperref, pifont, ulem. It can create customized LaTeX code based on the styles and text in the document. Also it supports more than 25 different languages, latin, greek and cyrillic scripts and 8 input-encodings.

The flexibility makes it possible to use Writer2LaTeX from several philosophies:

• You can use LaTeX as a typesetting engine for your LO documents: Writer2LaTeX can be configured to create a LaTeX document with as much formatting as possible preserved. Note that the resulting LaTeX source will be readable, but not very clean.

  Be aware that even though Writer2LaTeX tries hard to cope with any document, you will only get good results for well structured documents, ie. documents that are formatted using styles. For other documents you will find that Writer2LaTeX uses the principle garbage in – garbage out!

• If you need to continue the work on your document in LaTeX your primary interest may be the content rather than the formatting. Writer2LaTeX can instructed to produce a LaTeX document which strips most of the formatting and hence produces a clean LaTeX source from any source document.

• Traditionally, LaTeX documents are written by hand using a text editor. Using a graphical frontend like LyX provides a more user friendly alternative. The Writer2LaTeX extension features a toolbar, which provides the basic functionality for using LO as a graphical frontend for LaTeX.