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A new beta test version, Writer2LaTeX 1.6.1, is now available for download from the project site http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/ and from the LibreOffice extension site https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/writer2latex-1 and https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/writer2latex-1

Version 1.6.1 is a minor update, which include the following bugfixes and new features:
- Writer2LaTeX:
- Fix bug with string replace
- Writer2xhtml:
- Fix bug with images (EPUB only)
- Improved support for alphabetical index
- Added support for user index
- New EPUB options external_toc_depth_marks and index_links for the content table
- New EPUB option avoid_html5 for enhanced EPUB 2 compatibility... read more

A new stable release, Writer2LaTeX 1.6, is now available for download from the project site http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/

New features in version 1.6 includes:

• Writer2LaTex extension:
  • New toolbar replacing the previous separate extension Writer4LaTeX
  • New feature to insert bibliographic references in Writer directly from BibTeX files
  • The log viewer dialog now features an option to display error messages only
  • WMF and EMF images are now exported to PDF
• Writer2LaTeX core:
  • Basic support for Hebrew (XeTeX backend only)
  • Export bibliography using a thebibliography environment if use_bibtex is false
  • Adapt to the new color scheme in StarMath introduced with LO 4.4/AOO 4.2
  • New option old_math_colors to select the old StarMath color scheme
  • New option font to select a predefined font scheme
  • New option bibtex_encoding to select the encoding for external BibTeX files
• Writer2xhtml extension:
  • New toolbar to directly export to XHTML or EPUB
• Writer2xhtml core:
  • Support for EPUB 3
  • New option include_ncx to include an NCX file even if the export format is EPUB 3
  • Improved markup of footnotes, endnotes, table of contents, alphabetical index and bibliography
  • Bibliographic references now link directly to the bibliography item
  • Added support for background color in alphabetical index and bibliography
  • New option max_width to set the maximum text width
  • New option embed_img to embed binary images directly as base64
  • Style maps now support before and after content (similarly to ::before and ::after in CSS)
• General:
  • It is now possible to pass options to the filters using soffice --headless --convert-to... read more

A new beta test release, Writer2LaTeX 1.4 beta, is now available.

Writer2LaTeX 1.4 features:

General:
- Optimized memory usage
- Images that are used more than once in the document are now only exported once
- Now requires Java 6
LaTeX export:
- New option display_hidden_text to toggle the export of hidden text in the document
- Merge spans with identical formatting
- Support for TexMaths equations
- The package ooomath.sty is no longer required by standard configurations
- StarMath bugfixes
XHTML/EPUB export:
- Support for (polyglot) HTML5, replacing the target format XHTML+MathML+XSLT
- New option use_mathjax to load the MathJax library if the target format is XHTML+MathML or HTML5
- Support for TexMaths equations (only if use_mathjax=true)
- Vector graphics is now converted to SVG if target format is HTML5
- New option embed_svg to embed SVG directly in HTML if target format is HTML5
- Support for HTML5 elements in templates
- Merge span elements with identical attributes
- New option table_size replacing the option ignore_table_dimensions
- Support display equations

A new stable version, Writer2LaTeX 1.2.1, has now been released and is available for download.
This release is identical to the beta test release (except for the date).

After a rather long development break, a beta test release of Writer2LaTeX 1.2 is now available for download.

Writer2LaTeX 1.2 features:
* Better integration with OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice
* XeTeX support
* Zotero and JabRef support
* new Writer4LaTeX extension integrating Writer with your LaTeX installation
* export to EPUB format.

Writer2LaTeX is a collection of converters from OpenDocument Format (ODF) to LaTeX/BibTeX, XHTML and XHTML+MathML. It is delivered as a standalone java library, as a command line application and as export filters for OpenOffice.org.

A beta test release of version 1.0 is now available for download at http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/