On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 18:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 18:21 schrieb Lindsay Haisley: > > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:01 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > > > > The resulting document uses a Courier non-prop. font and I'd like to be > > > > able to print it to a text file _just as it looks_ and preserve all the > > > > indentation, centering and justification. Seems like just about any > > > > format I save it to, however (HTML, RTF, text) loses these features and > > > > I'll have another job ahead of me re-formatting everything again in vim > > > > or some other text editor. This can be done, but I'm wondering if > > > > there's any way to get text output from OpenOffice that's truer to the > > > > original appearance. > > > > > > Is there some reason you can't save it as a text (or RTF, or > > > opendocument) file? I've imported from obscure wordprocessors before, > > > and saved as normal files fine. > > > > I can leave it in any one of a number of formats. I've created ps, pdf > > and odf files which are properly formatted (rtf is not). My thinking is > > that this is archival material and if I'm going to submit it to an > > archive site, plain ASCII text is a lot more likely to be easily read > > and understood 20 years from now than is a more complex format. > > Isn't TeX / LaTeX used for this purpose. As the de facto standard for more > than 15 years I don't think it will change anytime soon.
So how do I get a document in ODT or PS format into a TeX/LaTeX format? OpenOffice doesn't offer this as a save format, nor do I seem to have a CLI filter to do the job. Frankly, I think I'd be better off with a PDF format document. PDF coversion and interpretation is now freely available and very common in many tools. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
