Open Source What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get office suite
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Using XMLTeX to typeset OpenDocument Text
I know that XMLTeX has already been used to typeset TEI documents, but has anyone publicly worked on a set of environment files and stylesheets to typeset OpenDocument Text? I have been looking for ...
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How to write tex4ht source files
How can I learn how to edit 4ht files? What should I read?
I want to fix a number of issues in ooffice.4ht (inconsistent footnote size, style names which mismatch names used by LibreOffice, dangling ...
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Developing a document class using a Writer2LaTeX-generated document as a starting point
Background
My university is finally starting to become more LaTeX-aware and has developed and published a document class for theses and memoirs. This class is based on the memoir class and is now ...
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How to convert to odt using xparse and mk4ht oolatex
Both tex4ht and htlatex compile documents with package xparse.
But mk4ht oolatex doesn't. Running it on a document as simple as:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xparse}
\begin{document}
a
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Working with Bib files in Word/LibreOffice
I've a huge database of books in .bib files.
Are there any ways to import this database into Microsoft Word, Open Office, Libre Office etc.?
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Cross references and citations do not show in LibreOffice after htlatex conversion
When trying to convert a simple LaTeX document to LibreOffice/OpenOffice, cross references and citations do not show in the final document. They do when converting to (X)HTML, but this has other ...
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Create a LibreOffice spreadsheet from luatex
After reading this amazing answer, I'm wondering if it possible to do the same thing but the other way round, that is create a LibreOffice spreadsheet from luatex, exporting data from the tex file to ...
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Export beamer slides to powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote editable format
I usually prepare my talks using powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote, where I explaing programs, pseudocodes, etc. Recently I was thinking about creating text-only, code-only and pseudocode-only ...
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As an expert, can you always use TeX for (nearly) any kind of document?
I am just beginning to learn TeX. Coming from web-development, I find separating content from style very sensible, and I like the logic behind it. To me it looks that having control over formatting is ...
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Equation gets cropped when using .emf in OOoLatex [closed]
I am using LibreOffice with the plugin OOoLatex 4.0 under Windows 7 x64.
When I generate equations in PNG format (the images) I have no problem.
What happens is that if I select EMF instead, when I ...
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\cancel does not work with emf
In OOoLaTeX for OpenOffice, when I use \cancel in .png format, it works, but it does not work for .emf format. For the .emf case, it just puts a weird symbol on the letter. Any idea?
Edit 1:
In .emf ...
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Avoid eps to png conversion using mk4ht oolatex
I have a big set of eps images and I need to place them into an OpenOffice (odt) document. I wrote a simple script that creates a tex file containing these eps images and now I'm trying to convert it ...
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How to export odt into latex? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I convert Open Office documents into LaTeX?
Good morning
Somebody give me old document in doc or odt format and I would like to include them with mine which are ...
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Insert libreoffice table as input
This question led to a new package:
odsfile
Suppose you have an localc spreadsheet myspread.ods and you want to insert the content of the range H4:I40 as a table into your latex document. I ...
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How do I convert Open Office documents into LaTeX?
Is there a good utility for this? Does it more than the standard stuff, or does it also do formulas and poems etc. in a good way?
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Can tex4ht output a 'flat XML' (fodt) OpenDocument file?
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, ...
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Problems building article with oolatex and hyperref
I'm getting into a bit of trouble, trying to convert a Latex article to OpenOffice. First of all, I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, with a texlive 2011 installation (installed via tlmgr).
EDIT1: There is now ...
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Exporting graphics wth text labels from OpenOffice.org Draw to ConTeXt
I often create graphics in OpenOffice.org Draw, containing vector graphics, text labels, with photos occasionally mixed in. OpenOffice.org supplies a variety of export formats. Is there any way to ...
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Convert Latex to odt using tex4ht [closed]
Based on advice from this question I'm trying to use tex4ht to convert a latex document into something readable by MS Word. I was planning to use tex4ht to convert .tex to odt format.
I'm running ...
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How do I tweak the output of tex4ht's latex-to-openoffice conversion?
Every now and then I am required to circulate a document in Word format; I write in LaTeX, of course. I use xelatex because I frequently need Unicode; I do bibliographies with biblatex; and I ...
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Weird error in file converted from docx to txt by LibreOffice [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LaTeX baffled by BOM---Unicode's byte order mark.
I have a large text file in .docx format, and I used LibreOffice to convert it to plain text so I could nicely ...
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Reading data from an ODS file in LaTeX?
I've been using csvtools to read data from CSV files. Is there any way to read data directly from a ODS file, to put the data into a LaTeX document?
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any basic extension for open-office? [closed]
I wonder if is there any extension teX for open office 3 under ubuntu 11.04.. even if it was for basic teX tasks. I got problems to set up paths links between teXlive itself and any of the editor apps ...
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converting Latex to OpenOffice
I need to convert a Latex document to OpenOffice -> Word in order to allow cooperation with non-latex users.
I've tried two commands:
oolatex foo.tex
and
mk4ht oolatex foo.tex
In both cases ...
