What if I told you you can convert ODT to TeX files without having
Libre/OpenOffice installed?
– Simon Wilper 11/2015
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People that do not want to go through the hazzle of installing a complete compiler toolchain under Windows can also download a prebuilt binary with all dependencies:
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What?
odt2tex is a simple command line tool that converts ODT
(Libre/OpenOffice text documents) to LaTeX .tex input files. It is released
under the MIT license and written in plain
C depending only on two further libraries:
- libzip
- library for opening and reading ZIP archives since Libre/OpenOffice files are ZIP compressed archives
- expat
- lightweight event based XML parser
The project is in early development stage. The following features are supported yet:
- Extraction of contiguous text paragraphs
- Nested level of ordered and unordered lists
- Convert tables to tabular environments
- Picture conversion
- StarOffice Math 5.0 to TeX Math conversion — although it does only support very basic math equations like frac, sup, sub, sqrt, etc.
Planned features:
- Convert embedded Libre/OpenOffce Draw files to pstricks (or similar)
If you have any requests feel free to send me an E-Mail.
Example of a very simple document conversion (click image for lager version):
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A very simple test proof-of-conceptdocument: |
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How?
odt2tex opens the ZIP file to access the contents.xml
feeding that to the expat XML parser. All embedded objects like
math or pictures are extracted first. The output is a
main.tex file that can be processed by
pdflatex to obtain a PDF file.
Where?
Development takes place right here on chronowerks. If you are interested in contributing drop me a mail.
Who?
Simon Wilper s.x.w--remove-the-dots--@chronowerks.de
E-Mail Address is Jabber ID. Don't send HTML Mails!
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