LaTeX output

[René Wuttke]

> I'm very interested in it because I'm yet another of those Ph.D.  
> candidates who is using OOP to organize my thesis.

Well basically the same thing here. I actually bought OO3Pro for his 
ability to Word and his upcoming ability to export to LaTeX at the same 
time, enabling me to write (or at least draft) my thesis in a single 
application. OO3 is definitely in need for a very sophisticated plug-in.

Well I guess the easiest export would be if you would simply write LaTeX 
code in OO3 and the export will just add the structure. The rows will 
give you the chapters, sections etc. and the notes would be the actual 
text. Options for that method should/could be: a way to set the 
"starting level" at 1st row level (chapter or section), if the notes for 
the first and last row should be interpreted as a header and footer (I 
prefer to have that separate and just \include{} the content) and maybe 
if the content should be split into separate tex-files (one for each 1st 
level row).

Well this already would be quite useful for me. But obviouslyobvisiouly 
it would be much more convenient if one could write in "normal" text 
without any LaTeX commands and OO3 would then translate e.g. a % into 
\%. This also would enable the file to be exported into Word, RTF or 
something for a non-LaTeX-reader (supervisor, colleagues). Since you 
can't avoid writing some LaTeX code into the file (like cite or 
non-standard-commands which I use a lot due to the package unitsdef) I 
suggest that you set up a template with some named styles like "LaTeX 
code" and "not for LaTeX" which people can adjust to their liking, while 
keeping there names (I probably would just choose red and blue text 
respectively.). The intention behind that is clear. If you would e.g. 
cite an article you would write: \cite{lowry51}(Lowry 1951), while 
\cite{lowry51} would have style 1, and (Lowry 1951) stlye 2 - exporting 
in LaTeX and Word would give you some reasonable/readable output in both 
formats, while being very laborious I have to admit.

I guess there is no easy way in having figures and tables included in 
both formats. Well just some thoughts and I wanted to point out that a 
LaTeX-Export is number 1 on my wish list too.

Thanks,
René

PS: I do OO and LaTeX in utf-8 and use non-Ascii-characters quite a bit.