[tex-live] converting LaTeX to OpenOffice
George N. White III
gnwiii at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 21:29:35 CEST 2010
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:13 PM, <rpvoland at spamcop.net> wrote:
> tex4ht and mk4ht have not yet produced an openoffice document for me. I
> can use TeXEdit just fine on the same articles to produce PDF.
>
> I am using TeXLive 2010 in M$-Windows XPSP3. I use pdflatex to typeset
> in TeXEdit, but used the commandline for tex4ht as indicated below.
>
>
> To test I start with a very simple TeX document called hello.tex.
>
> ---------
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> Hello, world!
> \end{document}
> ---------
>
> I execute from the M$-Windows command line:
> latex hello
> tex4th hello
> mk4ht oolatex hello
>
> Then, the directory contains:
>
>
> 10/21/2010 01:44 PM <DIR> .
> 10/21/2010 01:44 PM <DIR> ..
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 782 hello-manifest.4of
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 914 hello-meta.4ot
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 403 hello-settings.4os
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 43,796 hello-styles.4oy
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 83 hello.4ct
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 0 hello.4od
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 2,877 hello.4oo
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 76 hello.4tc
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 52 hello.aux
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 64,700 hello.dvi
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 62 hello.html
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 989 hello.idv
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 723 hello.lg
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 9,498 hello.log
> 10/21/2010 01:41 PM 72 hello.tex
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 51 hello.tmp
> 10/21/2010 01:43 PM 34 hello.xref
> 18 File(s) 125,112 bytes
> 2 Dir(s) 455,772,909,568 bytes free
>
>
>
>
> I don't see anything in that directory that OpenOffice can open. What
> am I doing wrong? Do I need to edit any configuration files?
I suspect something is missing in Windows. Using "mk4ht oolatex sample2e"
in linux (Ubuntu 10.04 amd64) with TL2010 I get a sample2e.odt that opens
in oowriter. There are some minor issues with the layout, but in general the
result is reasonable.
Under linux there are many lines with "System call: " using mkdir, mv,
cp, and java,
all indicating "System return: 0".
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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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