ODT to TeX converter

V0.0.13 - 2016-07-27 Simon Wilper

Plain C program that takes a ODT file and an output directory to write the tex file to.

This program is in early development stage. For changes see CHANGES.MD

Dependencies are:

• libzip for reading the contents.xml from the zipped ODT file
• expat for running the XML parse process

The build system used is plain make as it is still available on most platforms and I don’t want to talk people into installing a fancy one just to get turned this couple of source files turned into a binary.

To get the binary odt2tex in the same directory as the Makefile type

make

then copy the binary odt2tex somewhere that is also in your PATH.

Usage

As a minimum you can run odt2tex with an input odt file an an out parameter pointing to a directory:

odt2tex in=testdoc.odt out=/home/jerry/documents/out

Other optional paremeters to tweak the output are:

• enc: TeX Encoding (defaults to UTF-8)
• lang: Language for Babel Hyphenation (defaults to en)
• captionoffset: Number of characters to strip from caption (0-128, default 2) This is due to as default the characters “: ” are inserted between the object type and the description like “Figue 2: Description”
• tablecolwidth: Table column Width (0-200, default 30)