On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:39:41 -0500 William Seager <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 February 2010 at 21:09, 0 wrote: > > Switching to Gentoo is not a solution for me. Thank you for warning > > me against it. As you can see from previous replies to my original > > request, this is a problem of MikTeX "external tools" and somebody > > said that this list can't do anything with this problem... > > > > I wasn't suggesting you switch to gentoo !! :) Please do stay away. > > And the option to save as OpenDocument was from somebody > running linux (ubuntu). So my confusion is growing. I'll summarise: 1. tex4ht is available for both Linux and Windows: see the web site at http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/. 2. For Linux, it should be installable with your package manager. 3. Windows, follow the instructions at http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn-mswin.html 4. Conversion to odt requires a Java installation. This should be the Sun version of the jre. 5. Conversion is easiest with the pre-defined oolatex script. On at least some Debian based Linux machines, this is not on the execution path. It must be located and referenced by its full path name. 6. Installation on Windows appears to me to be harder. I always advise computer newcomers to stick with Linux until they are comfortable enough to try the more difficult system. HTH, Alan > -- > William Seager > University of Toronto Scarborough > www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager >
