{"id":369,"date":"2004-03-04T02:25:35","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/04\/a-really-good-nitch-for-openoffice-doc"},"modified":"2004-03-04T02:25:35","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:25:35","slug":"a-really-good-nitch-for-openoffice-docbook-exporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/04\/a-really-good-nitch-for-openoffice-docbook-exporter\/","title":{"rendered":"A really good nitch for OpenOffice (DocBook exporter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a324'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenOffice has gotten a decent following.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;ll admit it&#8217;s a<br \/>\npretty impressive project to take on Microsoft Office.&nbsp; However,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not that interested in Office of any kind.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>However, I have been looking into DocBook and LaTeX for documenting<br \/>\nstructured documents that I would like to write.&nbsp; However, both<br \/>\nare just formats and the toolchain to get DocBook and LaTeX to do<br \/>\nsomething is very large and complicated.&nbsp; It makes me want to go<br \/>\nback to a Word Processor since the paradigm is very well understood and<br \/>\nI can live with some of the misgivings.&nbsp; What would be nice is a<br \/>\ncombination of the ease of use of a Word Procesor combined with the<br \/>\nability to dump to a structured text format.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And OpenOffice has been slowly moving towards that end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zzoss.com\/projects\/oowdbk\/\">An OpenOffice to DocBook Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenOffice has gotten a decent following.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;ll admit it&#8217;s a pretty impressive project to take on Microsoft Office.&nbsp; However, I&#8217;m not that interested in Office of any kind.&nbsp; However, I have been looking into DocBook and LaTeX for documenting structured documents that I would like to write.&nbsp; However, both are just formats and the toolchain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}