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Subject: Re: How do I convert org to OpenOffice?
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Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch> writes:

> Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
>
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> There is a way, isn't there? ;-)
>>
>> I've had great success with LaTeX2rtf (i..e, org->LaTeX->rtf). As long
>> as you are not using too many exotic packages, it works like a charm.
>
> It works fairly well with LaTeX2rtf. Cross references didn't work
> though.

The manual suggests that cross-references work, but that their
functionality depends on the office suite:

http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/docu_1_9_14.html#Cross%20References

I've found both section references and page references to work well with
Open Office. 

> A colleague just showed me PyODConverter[1] which seems to be some kind
> of command line remote control for OO.o. So what you do is to export org
> to html and then use PyODConverter to convert html to doc. According to
> him it works well.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Best,
Matt