Re: Software For Book Writing
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:25:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:55:51AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > >On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:04:03PM -0700, TW wrote:
> >
> > >There seems to be a module that converts LaTex into just about anything,
> >
> > Can it convert from latex to odt format? I have spent quite a bit of
> > time unsuccessfully searching for something that would do it without
> > causing a lot of grief. Please point me to it. It would be a life saver
> > in those cases where people insist on receiving documents in .doc
> > format. Last time, I ended up making the document in OpenOffice and
> > exporting it as word. It was a pain (the writing part, not the export).
>
> tex4ht's oolatex command would seem to make odt which you could bring
> into OpenOffice and then export as whatever. I've never used OO or MSW
> and never seen an ODT file. I have used tex4ht to make an html file (as
> a test to see that it works).
If you have word, there seems to be a module for it called tex2doc that
allows word to import .tex files directly.
Doug.
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