3.6 Using OpenOffice.org as a frontend for LaTeX

Writer2LaTeX has some rudimentary support for using OOo as a frontend for LaTeX . The long term goal of this is to turn Writer into a near-wysiwyg LaTeX editor somewhat like LyX.

Here is a short description:

Create a new document based on the template LaTeX-article.stw.

This template contains a number of styles that corresponds to LaTeX styles:

Paragraph styles Heading 1 through Heading 5 should be used for headings (as usual). The styles flushleft, flushright, center, quote, quotation, verse corresponds to the environments of the same name in LaTeX.

The paragraph styles itemize, enumerate are used to start a new list.

The paragraph style theorem is used to insert a numbered theorem.

Text styles Huge, huge, LARGE, Large, large, normalsize, small, footnotesize, scriptsize, tiny, textrm, textsf, texttt, textup, textit, textsl, textsc, textmd, textbf all corresponds to the font changing commends of the same name in LaTeX.

If you use these styles (and no other style!) and uses the configuration file article.xml when you convert your document with Writer2LaTeX, you will get a result that resembles a handwritten LaTeX file.

Note: As Writer2LaTeX cannot import LaTeX files into Writer, you should save your document in the native format and convert to LaTeX when you are finished (or want to see the result).