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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: converting openoffice docs to TeX
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On 2008-01-25 00:15, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I convert an open office doc to a (La)TeX document... basically
> I have found the OO munched my equations when I attempted to export it
> to pdf and since I have used LyX before want to move the document
> there since it does esport math correctly.

OO documents use an XML-based format.

You might be able to get a long way towards full TeX conversion by using
a carefully crafted set of XSL stylesheets.

That's only a guess, mind you, as I prefer to write directly in TeX if I
have a choice, and I don't have many documents in OO format.