Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 19:19 schrieb Lindsay Haisley: > 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 | |
dev-tex/html2latex Kword and OpenOffice contain a TeX converter but I don't know how good it is. They allow you to save plain text, too. Did you try it? By the way: Since it's for an archive you might consider using a format which is easy to compress. I've made the experience that OpenDocument and PDF are hard to compress compared to plain text or MS-Word (of course, OpenDocuments are already compressed, but not as much as possible).
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