3 Using Writer2LaTeX and Writer2BibTeX
Writer2LaTeX is quite flexible: It can take advantage of several LaTeX packages, such as hyperref, pifont, ulem. It supports 16 different languages, including greek and russian.
The flexibility makes it possible to use Writer2LaTeX from several philosophies:
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You can use LaTeX as a typesetting engine for your OOo documents: Writer2LaTeX will create a LaTeX document with the same look and feel as the original (this is the default behavior). Note that the resulting LaTeX source will be readable, but not very clean.
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If you for some reason need to continue the work on your document in LaTeX your primary interest may be the content rather than the formatting. Writer2LaTeX can be configured to produce a LaTeX document which strips most of the formatting and hence produces a clean LaTeX source from any source document.
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If you don't like to write LaTeX code by hand, you may use OOo as a simple graphical front-end for LaTeX. Using a special OOo Writer template and a special configuration file for Writer2LaTeX, you can create well-structured LaTeX documents that resembles “hand-written” LaTeX documents. You can compare this to the way LyX works.