On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:17 +0530, Rajveer Sangha wrote: > Dear Open Office, > > I am an amateur programmer, knowing primarily c++ and c. i want to develop a > certain extension for open office which will enable a 'markup mode' or > 'interpreted mode' in open office, for easier formatting, much like LATEX. > Instead of writing the text and then applying various levels of formatting > to it, for example: headlines, sub-headlines, body text etc., we can write > our document like: > <heading>this is heading</heading> > <sub>this is sub heading</sub> > <body>Text formatiing is so easier this way in a large document</body> > User would be able to define thesemarkups, like <heading> means BookMan Old > 20 pt Red Color etc. > > WYSWYG is OK for small documents but when they become more involved, keep a > track of formatting gets tougher. > > TEX and LATEX provide exactly this functionality but they have a steep > learning curve and are limited to mainly scientific community for largely > Math Typesetting. > > Say I can make a toggle button for "Interpreter mode". Press the button and > start writing your document in this markup fashion. Once you're done, toggle > the button and the whole document is interpreted and displayed in formatted > manner and you able to write in that WYSIWYG manner too, ie without > interpreting. > > I tried studying your programming guide to begin, but it doesn't provide > much insight into my problem. > > Please Reply, Regards
You might want to have a look at http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ before you get too involved. What might be nice is an import filter for LaTeX. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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