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            LibreOffice Writer, as one would expect, also includes Writer2LaTeX as an extension.



            Writer2LaTeX is being actively developed (the current stable version is 1.0.2 (included with Ubuntu Natty, for example), the latest development alpha is 1.1.8. Changes include the development of Writer4LaTeX, aiming to integrate Writer with a LaTeX installation, providing a 'LaTeX' menu item on the LibreOffice Writer menu bar, effectively providing (by default) latex (usually symlinked to pdflatex) as a typesetting engine for Writer accessible directly on the Writer menu. The options for the extensions can be set from within Writer.



            The range of export options for Writer2LaTeX (Writer extension) and w2l (command line Writer2LaTeX) is extensive and detailed in the software's manual. At the top level Writer2LaTeX allows the selection of export options that range from an ultra-lean document (not much more than content) to keeping the screen appearance (in a .pdf), and allows custom configuration of options. The documentation covers this so I'll not put more here beyond this quotation:




            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 OOo 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. A
            companion extension named Writer4LaTeX is in available and provides
            the tools to make you use OOo as a graphical frontend for LaTeX.




            If it may be of interest, visit the Writer2LaTeX project site, browse the documentation and perhaps give the software a try with copies of your documents. (If you have Ubuntu Natty then the v1.0.2 software and manual can be installed using Synaptic and the manual should then be at /usr/share/doc/writer2latex/manual/user-manual.odt).



            I have used v1.0.2 for exporting several documents to aid with transitioning workflows from word processor or DTP software to TeX and friends. In general I have wanted good content conversion and some limited structure conversion and have had less interest in preserving the look of the document. My documents have generally been simple but the conversion has been helpful and, where the document was well structured (e.g. styles used) then this has been mostly preserved -- at least enough to provide suggestions for LaTeX commands and packages. The only notable exception was multiple columns were lost but I did not try changing options to achieve that: for my use it was easier to take the content and apply appropriate LaTeX commands to provide a suitable structure. This also applies to formulae. As an example, if Einstein's famous equation is entered as text (using a superscript) and then with the Writer equation editor the resulting .tex file, (created via Writer4LaTeX and Writer2Latex (v1.1.8) within LibreOffice Writer) contains:



            begindocument
            e = mctextsuperscript2

            $e=mc^2$
            enddocument


            There is useful discussion of file conversion to LaTeX in the question adding Word files to documents, including some helpful links to other tools and links to detailed consideration of their (de-)merits.






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              There is a new project called odt2tex. It is very small and only depends on libzip and libexpat. So there is no need to have libre/openoffice installed to run the Writer2LaTeX extension. Also you don't need a Java Runtime what would even allow this tool to run on RasPi in a feasible manner.






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                AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) has the facility to import documents and export as Latex. It is open source. I've used it a few times but the one downside is that the equations are rendered as images.






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                      • homepage at sourceforge

                      • OpenOffice extension

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                          LibreOffice Writer, as one would expect, also includes Writer2LaTeX as an extension.



                          Writer2LaTeX is being actively developed (the current stable version is 1.0.2 (included with Ubuntu Natty, for example), the latest development alpha is 1.1.8. Changes include the development of Writer4LaTeX, aiming to integrate Writer with a LaTeX installation, providing a 'LaTeX' menu item on the LibreOffice Writer menu bar, effectively providing (by default) latex (usually symlinked to pdflatex) as a typesetting engine for Writer accessible directly on the Writer menu. The options for the extensions can be set from within Writer.



                          The range of export options for Writer2LaTeX (Writer extension) and w2l (command line Writer2LaTeX) is extensive and detailed in the software's manual. At the top level Writer2LaTeX allows the selection of export options that range from an ultra-lean document (not much more than content) to keeping the screen appearance (in a .pdf), and allows custom configuration of options. The documentation covers this so I'll not put more here beyond this quotation:




                          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 OOo 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. A
                          companion extension named Writer4LaTeX is in available and provides
                          the tools to make you use OOo as a graphical frontend for LaTeX.




                          If it may be of interest, visit the Writer2LaTeX project site, browse the documentation and perhaps give the software a try with copies of your documents. (If you have Ubuntu Natty then the v1.0.2 software and manual can be installed using Synaptic and the manual should then be at /usr/share/doc/writer2latex/manual/user-manual.odt).



                          I have used v1.0.2 for exporting several documents to aid with transitioning workflows from word processor or DTP software to TeX and friends. In general I have wanted good content conversion and some limited structure conversion and have had less interest in preserving the look of the document. My documents have generally been simple but the conversion has been helpful and, where the document was well structured (e.g. styles used) then this has been mostly preserved -- at least enough to provide suggestions for LaTeX commands and packages. The only notable exception was multiple columns were lost but I did not try changing options to achieve that: for my use it was easier to take the content and apply appropriate LaTeX commands to provide a suitable structure. This also applies to formulae. As an example, if Einstein's famous equation is entered as text (using a superscript) and then with the Writer equation editor the resulting .tex file, (created via Writer4LaTeX and Writer2Latex (v1.1.8) within LibreOffice Writer) contains:



                          begindocument
                          e = mctextsuperscript2

                          $e=mc^2$
                          enddocument


                          There is useful discussion of file conversion to LaTeX in the question adding Word files to documents, including some helpful links to other tools and links to detailed consideration of their (de-)merits.






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                            LibreOffice Writer, as one would expect, also includes Writer2LaTeX as an extension.



                            Writer2LaTeX is being actively developed (the current stable version is 1.0.2 (included with Ubuntu Natty, for example), the latest development alpha is 1.1.8. Changes include the development of Writer4LaTeX, aiming to integrate Writer with a LaTeX installation, providing a 'LaTeX' menu item on the LibreOffice Writer menu bar, effectively providing (by default) latex (usually symlinked to pdflatex) as a typesetting engine for Writer accessible directly on the Writer menu. The options for the extensions can be set from within Writer.



                            The range of export options for Writer2LaTeX (Writer extension) and w2l (command line Writer2LaTeX) is extensive and detailed in the software's manual. At the top level Writer2LaTeX allows the selection of export options that range from an ultra-lean document (not much more than content) to keeping the screen appearance (in a .pdf), and allows custom configuration of options. The documentation covers this so I'll not put more here beyond this quotation:




                            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 OOo 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. A
                            companion extension named Writer4LaTeX is in available and provides
                            the tools to make you use OOo as a graphical frontend for LaTeX.




                            If it may be of interest, visit the Writer2LaTeX project site, browse the documentation and perhaps give the software a try with copies of your documents. (If you have Ubuntu Natty then the v1.0.2 software and manual can be installed using Synaptic and the manual should then be at /usr/share/doc/writer2latex/manual/user-manual.odt).



                            I have used v1.0.2 for exporting several documents to aid with transitioning workflows from word processor or DTP software to TeX and friends. In general I have wanted good content conversion and some limited structure conversion and have had less interest in preserving the look of the document. My documents have generally been simple but the conversion has been helpful and, where the document was well structured (e.g. styles used) then this has been mostly preserved -- at least enough to provide suggestions for LaTeX commands and packages. The only notable exception was multiple columns were lost but I did not try changing options to achieve that: for my use it was easier to take the content and apply appropriate LaTeX commands to provide a suitable structure. This also applies to formulae. As an example, if Einstein's famous equation is entered as text (using a superscript) and then with the Writer equation editor the resulting .tex file, (created via Writer4LaTeX and Writer2Latex (v1.1.8) within LibreOffice Writer) contains:



                            begindocument
                            e = mctextsuperscript2

                            $e=mc^2$
                            enddocument


                            There is useful discussion of file conversion to LaTeX in the question adding Word files to documents, including some helpful links to other tools and links to detailed consideration of their (de-)merits.






                            share|improve this answer



























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                              LibreOffice Writer, as one would expect, also includes Writer2LaTeX as an extension.



                              Writer2LaTeX is being actively developed (the current stable version is 1.0.2 (included with Ubuntu Natty, for example), the latest development alpha is 1.1.8. Changes include the development of Writer4LaTeX, aiming to integrate Writer with a LaTeX installation, providing a 'LaTeX' menu item on the LibreOffice Writer menu bar, effectively providing (by default) latex (usually symlinked to pdflatex) as a typesetting engine for Writer accessible directly on the Writer menu. The options for the extensions can be set from within Writer.



                              The range of export options for Writer2LaTeX (Writer extension) and w2l (command line Writer2LaTeX) is extensive and detailed in the software's manual. At the top level Writer2LaTeX allows the selection of export options that range from an ultra-lean document (not much more than content) to keeping the screen appearance (in a .pdf), and allows custom configuration of options. The documentation covers this so I'll not put more here beyond this quotation:




                              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 OOo 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. A
                              companion extension named Writer4LaTeX is in available and provides
                              the tools to make you use OOo as a graphical frontend for LaTeX.




                              If it may be of interest, visit the Writer2LaTeX project site, browse the documentation and perhaps give the software a try with copies of your documents. (If you have Ubuntu Natty then the v1.0.2 software and manual can be installed using Synaptic and the manual should then be at /usr/share/doc/writer2latex/manual/user-manual.odt).



                              I have used v1.0.2 for exporting several documents to aid with transitioning workflows from word processor or DTP software to TeX and friends. In general I have wanted good content conversion and some limited structure conversion and have had less interest in preserving the look of the document. My documents have generally been simple but the conversion has been helpful and, where the document was well structured (e.g. styles used) then this has been mostly preserved -- at least enough to provide suggestions for LaTeX commands and packages. The only notable exception was multiple columns were lost but I did not try changing options to achieve that: for my use it was easier to take the content and apply appropriate LaTeX commands to provide a suitable structure. This also applies to formulae. As an example, if Einstein's famous equation is entered as text (using a superscript) and then with the Writer equation editor the resulting .tex file, (created via Writer4LaTeX and Writer2Latex (v1.1.8) within LibreOffice Writer) contains:



                              begindocument
                              e = mctextsuperscript2

                              $e=mc^2$
                              enddocument


                              There is useful discussion of file conversion to LaTeX in the question adding Word files to documents, including some helpful links to other tools and links to detailed consideration of their (de-)merits.






                              share|improve this answer















                              LibreOffice Writer, as one would expect, also includes Writer2LaTeX as an extension.



                              Writer2LaTeX is being actively developed (the current stable version is 1.0.2 (included with Ubuntu Natty, for example), the latest development alpha is 1.1.8. Changes include the development of Writer4LaTeX, aiming to integrate Writer with a LaTeX installation, providing a 'LaTeX' menu item on the LibreOffice Writer menu bar, effectively providing (by default) latex (usually symlinked to pdflatex) as a typesetting engine for Writer accessible directly on the Writer menu. The options for the extensions can be set from within Writer.



                              The range of export options for Writer2LaTeX (Writer extension) and w2l (command line Writer2LaTeX) is extensive and detailed in the software's manual. At the top level Writer2LaTeX allows the selection of export options that range from an ultra-lean document (not much more than content) to keeping the screen appearance (in a .pdf), and allows custom configuration of options. The documentation covers this so I'll not put more here beyond this quotation:




                              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 OOo 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. A
                              companion extension named Writer4LaTeX is in available and provides
                              the tools to make you use OOo as a graphical frontend for LaTeX.




                              If it may be of interest, visit the Writer2LaTeX project site, browse the documentation and perhaps give the software a try with copies of your documents. (If you have Ubuntu Natty then the v1.0.2 software and manual can be installed using Synaptic and the manual should then be at /usr/share/doc/writer2latex/manual/user-manual.odt).



                              I have used v1.0.2 for exporting several documents to aid with transitioning workflows from word processor or DTP software to TeX and friends. In general I have wanted good content conversion and some limited structure conversion and have had less interest in preserving the look of the document. My documents have generally been simple but the conversion has been helpful and, where the document was well structured (e.g. styles used) then this has been mostly preserved -- at least enough to provide suggestions for LaTeX commands and packages. The only notable exception was multiple columns were lost but I did not try changing options to achieve that: for my use it was easier to take the content and apply appropriate LaTeX commands to provide a suitable structure. This also applies to formulae. As an example, if Einstein's famous equation is entered as text (using a superscript) and then with the Writer equation editor the resulting .tex file, (created via Writer4LaTeX and Writer2Latex (v1.1.8) within LibreOffice Writer) contains:



                              begindocument
                              e = mctextsuperscript2

                              $e=mc^2$
                              enddocument


                              There is useful discussion of file conversion to LaTeX in the question adding Word files to documents, including some helpful links to other tools and links to detailed consideration of their (de-)merits.







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                                  There is a new project called odt2tex. It is very small and only depends on libzip and libexpat. So there is no need to have libre/openoffice installed to run the Writer2LaTeX extension. Also you don't need a Java Runtime what would even allow this tool to run on RasPi in a feasible manner.






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                                    There is a new project called odt2tex. It is very small and only depends on libzip and libexpat. So there is no need to have libre/openoffice installed to run the Writer2LaTeX extension. Also you don't need a Java Runtime what would even allow this tool to run on RasPi in a feasible manner.






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                                      There is a new project called odt2tex. It is very small and only depends on libzip and libexpat. So there is no need to have libre/openoffice installed to run the Writer2LaTeX extension. Also you don't need a Java Runtime what would even allow this tool to run on RasPi in a feasible manner.






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                                      There is a new project called odt2tex. It is very small and only depends on libzip and libexpat. So there is no need to have libre/openoffice installed to run the Writer2LaTeX extension. Also you don't need a Java Runtime what would even allow this tool to run on RasPi in a feasible manner.







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                                          AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) has the facility to import documents and export as Latex. It is open source. I've used it a few times but the one downside is that the equations are rendered as images.






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                                            AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) has the facility to import documents and export as Latex. It is open source. I've used it a few times but the one downside is that the equations are rendered as images.






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                                              AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) has the facility to import documents and export as Latex. It is open source. I've used it a few times but the one downside is that the equations are rendered as images.






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                                              AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) has the facility to import documents and export as Latex. It is open source. I've used it a few times but the one downside is that the equations are rendered as images.







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