Goals

Authoring web content with LibreOffice Writer

Writer2xhtml allows you convert your documents to HTML5 for viewing in a web browser. It will convert your document with as much formatting as possible preserved. Alternatively you can use your own stylesheet to format the document.

HTML5 supports documents with formulas using MathML, and Writer2xhtml of course supports this. In addition, the JavaScript library MathJax is be supported to ensure that your mathematical documents will be readable in almost any browser.

Since a printed document is quite different from an online document, Writer2xhtml ignores certain formatting (page style, columns) and creates a lot of hyperlinks, eg. for cross references, to/from footnotes, from the alphabetical index etc. You can use this to publish Writer documents to the web, or you can use it to produce rich content for a Content Management System.

Writer2xhtml aims to produce valid HTML5 documents that are a faithful representaion of the original document, while adapting it to an online context.