Writer2LaTeX 1.6 stable is released

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

Development for the next stable version, Writer2LaTeX 2.0, is in progress. A first development snapshot, Writer2LaTeX 1.9.1, is available for download if you want to test it.