Re: OpenOffice export

["Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Hi Thomas,

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:55:24 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz  
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> not to sound negative, but I remember looking at it, and as far as I
> could see, they have just integrated writer2latex ( http://www.hj-
> gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ ) into OOo. It's a wonderful thing to have,
> but it has been around for a while; the only thing that's new is the
> integration. As to ConTeXt export: writer2latex can be customized in
> a number of ways. For the basic stuff, you can get output that looks
> a lot like ConTeXt, just don't expect miracles (don't expect miracles
> for LaTeX, either, btw).

I looked at the output; a bit ugly (which tells me the xml is probably as  
weird as Hans suggests).

Yes, we can't expect miracles. The real problem is converting to a  
structured format, and that limits things. But for academic articles and  
the like a reasonable subset should be possible to cook up...

I think the potential of OOo as pre-TeX wysiwyg editor is worth exploring.  
My own needs are for an academic journal so it's a bit urgent for me,  
anyway... maybe a year from now...

Best
Idris
>
> On Dec 2, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
>> Hi gang,
>>
>> I just learned that OOo 2.04 has a LaTeX export (downloading now).
>> Any of
>> you bright programmers up to writing a ConTeXt export (or porting the
>> LaTeX filters to ConTeXt)?

-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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