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› December 11, 2003

From OpenOffice.org to XHTML – reloaded

  • Reported by Andreas

After some two weeks of mailing, testing and intensive programming, Henrik Just has released a new development version of his Writer2LaTeX tool. The interesting thing is that this release fixes a lot of the problems people might have had with the previous version. The new version features:

  • better <title> support
  • inclusion of Dublin Core metadata
  • ids instead of <a name="" /> anchors
  • correct blockquote support; that is, with p tags wrapped around quoted paragraphs
  • no p tags anymore inside of li (yep, Tristan)
  • generation of classes, even with styles turned off (useful when defining your own stylesheet)
  • XHTML 1.0 strict (.html), XHTML 1.1 + MathML 2.0 (.xhtml), and XHTML 1.1 + MathML 2.0 (.xsl) (.xml) export
  • support for alphabetical indexes
  • and more...

And, to make things easy: I've updated my quickguide.

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1. December 11, 2003 05:56 PM

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Chessy Posted…

Big thanks to both of you, Henrik for writer2latex and Andreas for the quickguide. This application rocks! And the quickguide is very useful and well written.

Keep up the good work.

2. December 20, 2003 12:32 PM

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Alberto Piccinno Posted…

Goog Work, the only sugestionis: Explain that example-config/xml is the write2latex.xml config file. Is not trivial for first time user to find out this.

3. December 21, 2003 02:34 PM

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TjL Posted…

Ok, I did this before and it worked fine.

Now I've reinstalled Windows, and when I try to do it this time I get an Error Report panel when I try to start OOo

4. December 21, 2003 02:56 PM

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TjL Posted…

I wonder if perhaps I am making a mistake somewhere in the TypeDetection.xcu file. Could you post your complete one for download?

5. December 21, 2003 03:40 PM

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TjL Posted…

Ok, well nevermind, I kept trying it and finally got it. No idea what I was doing wrong before, but it's working. If anyone wants a copy of my TypeDetection.xcu file (OOo 1.10 english) it's at http://tntluoma.com/ooo/TypeDetection.zip. Thanks again for the HOW TO!

6. December 21, 2003 05:16 PM

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Andreas Posted…

Alberto: OK, I'll consider implementing your suggestion in the quickguide's next version. TjL: glad you managed to fix it.

7. November 12, 2004 02:57 AM

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Indrek Posted…

Thanks, works fine upto 250 pages. The trick is that my original document is 4500 pages and it really took some time to find out the maximum amout of pages. It seems that the error I get with huge documents: 'General output error' is part of OO bugs.