1 Introduction

1.1 What is Writer2LaTeX?

Writer2LaTeX is a utility to convert OpenOffice.org (or StarOffice 6/7) Writer and Calc documents – in particular documents containing formulas – into other formats, Actually it is 4 converters in one:

You can use Writer2LaTeX

This user's manual will explain how to install and use Writer2LaTeX.

Writer2LaTeX is a Java application, and thus should work on any platform that supports Java. You need Sun's Java 2 Virtual Machine (Runtime Environment), version 1.4 or 1.5. You can download this from http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html. AFAIK Writer2LaTeX doesn't run (unmodified) under any other Java interpreter.

Note: In this manual OOo is used as an abbreviation of OpenOffice.org/StarOffice.