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# 1 Introduction

## 1.1 What is Writer2LaTeX?

Writer2LaTeX is a utility to convert OpenDocument text and spreadsheet documents – in particular documents containing formulas – into other formats.

Actually it is 4 converters in one:

- Writer2LaTeX converts OpenDocument text documents to LaTeX 2e, and works together with:

- Writer2BibTeX extracts bibliographic data from an OpenDocument text document and converts it to BibTeX format.

- Writer2xhtml converts OpenDocument text documents to XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1 + MathML 2.0, using CSS2 to convert style information.

- Calc2xhtml converts OpenDocument spreadsheet documents to XHTML 1.0 strict, using CSS2 to convert style information.

The old file formats for OpenOffice.org 1.x (or StarOffice 6/7) Writer and Calc documents are also supported.

Although Writer2LaTeX is a general OpenDocument converter, it is primarily designed for use with OpenOffice.org/StarOffice You can use Writer2LaTeX

- ...as a command line utility, independent of OpenOffice.org/StarOffice.

- ...as an export filter for OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, StarOffice 8 Product Update 4 or NeoOffice 2.01 or later versions.

- ...from another Java program.

This user's manual will explain how to install and use Writer2LaTeX.

Note: Version 0.5.0.2 is identical to version 0.5, except that the export filters now use the new extension format available from OpenOffice.org 2.0.4, and the filters for LaTeX/BibTeX and xhtml are packed as separate extensions.

Writer2LaTeX is a Java application, and thus should work on any platform that supports Java. You need Sun's Java 2 Virtual Machine (Runtime Environment), version 1.4 or 1.5. You can download this from http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html. AFAIK Writer2LaTeX doesn't run (unmodified) under any other Java interpreter.

Note: In this manual OOo is used as an abbreviation of OpenOffice.org/StarOffice/NeoOffice.

1 If you want to use Writer2LaTeX as an export filter in older versions, please use version 0.4.