Re: [gentoo-desktop] Adding a text fiile printer (or any printer) in OpenOffice

[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.

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