<paragraph role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">The purpose of the Writer4LaTeX extension is to turn Writer into a frontend for LaTeX.
By installing Writer4LaTeX you will thus be available to author well-structured LaTeX documents using (almost) the full power of
%PRODUCTNAME Writer.
The functionality of %PRODUCTNAME Writer with Writer4LaTeX can be compared to the application
<link href="http://www.lyx.org" name="Link to the Lyx Website">LyX</link>.
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<paragraph role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Authoring LaTeX files with Writer4LaTeX</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">You can use Writer4LaTeX in two different ways
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<paragraph role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">You can prepare your documents with Writer as you usually do,
keeping a few
<link href="org.openoffice.da.writer4latex.oxt/guidelines.xhp" name="Guidelines">guidelines</link> in mind.
You can then invoke Writer4LaTeX to convert your document into LaTeX, process the LaTeX document and display the final result. You are free to create either a LaTeX document that preserves as much of your formatting as possible – or create a clean LaTeX document that will resemble a LaTeX document created by hand.
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<paragraph role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">You can use some special
<link href="org.openoffice.da.writer4latex.oxt/templates.xhp" name="Using the templates">Writer templates</link>
provided with Writer4LaTeX to
create your documents. Using the styles supported by these templates, you can easily create standard LaTeX documents
using the opportunities of standard LaTeX document classes.
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<paragraph role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">For this initial version, templates for the standard LaTeX classes article
are provided. More templates will be added later (report, book, beamer...), and you can also add your own templates.
