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I'm guessing the answer to this question is no, but no harm asking - tex4ht, when outputting oolatex, outputs an .odt OpenDocument, which is actually a .zip file (which then contains content.xml, folders with images, etc).

However, there is this OpenDocument "Flat XML" file, which gets the extension '.fodt' in Libre/OpenOffice. This one actually even contains encoded binary data of images, within the <office:binary-data> tag! There is a bit on this format in OpenDocument technical specification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

So, for double-checking what tex4ht outputs in case of oolatex, I guess I'd prefer a direct "render" to a Flat XML .fodt file - instead of bulding the .odt zip, then unzipping it to check its content... But I'm not sure if it's possible at all - I cannot find many references for this Flat XML file format.

Many thanks in advance for any answers,
Cheers!

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there is no such option, and I think it would be hard to do it - you would need to post-process the xml with some script and include all images, maybe herder would be to rewrite the tex4ht's ooffice config files. I think better to go this way would be to convert odt to fodt (see oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=153292 ). or write script to unzip text content from the odt file – michal.h21 Apr 30 '12 at 19:21
Many thanks for that, @michal.h21 - I was suspecting that is the case; maybe you can move your comment to an answer so I can accept it? Thanks - cheers! – sdaau Apr 30 '12 at 19:55

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As Michal wrote in his comment, there's no option to create a flat ODT document directly with TeX4ht. However, you don't need additional OO wrapper scripts either but can directly use OpenOffice/LibreOffice as a command-line converter:

oowriter --convert-to fodt myfile.odt

You only have to ensure that the proper OO XSLT filters are installed, i.e. export format .fodt is listed as an option in the SaveAs dialog.

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Many thanks for that, @Martin - good to have it in writing :) Cheers! – sdaau Apr 30 '12 at 20:23
This silently exits doing nothing if any OpenOffice/LibreOffice is running - see here for workaround. – Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin Dec 13 '12 at 19:38

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