Goals

Using LibreOffice Writer as a frontend for LaTeX

Traditionally, LaTeX code has been written by hand. If you find this too technical and somewhat arcane, using a graphical editor like LyX is an alternative. Writer2LaTeX will aim to provide the tools to use LibreOffice Writer as a graphical editor for LaTeX. Writer2LaTeX integrates Writer with your LaTeX distribution, enabling you to control the entire process from within Writer. It furthermore integrates with the external bibliographic tools Zotero and JabRef and the formula editor TeXMaths.

You should beware, that Writer and LaTeX differs quite a lot in concepts – so there will always to be some limitations. In particular LaTeX is really a programming language, while Writer works with a finite feature set. This implies that you never will be able to produce arbitrary LaTeX documents using Writer. Expert users may embed LaTeX code directly in the document to work around this limitation.

Writer2LaTeX will aim to provide a smooth and seamless integration of Writer with your LaTeX distribution and other tools. It is a major goal that it should be possible to use Writer2LaTeX without any technical knowledge of LaTeX, and yet give the expert user access to (almost) the full power of LaTeX.