Converting text files into ODF with odtwriter
While you can create
and save documents in the OpenDocument format using OpenOffice.org,
KWord, or AbiWord, there are other ways to generate ODF files. odtwriter, for example, can help you quickly convert plain text files formatted using reStructured Text
markup into ODT (OpenOffice.org Writer-compatible ODF) documents. Using
odtwriter, you can generate ODF files on machines that don’t have
ODF-compatible word processors installed, such as those running
lightweight Linux distros, or simply compose documents in a text editor
and leave the task of properly formatting them to odtwriter.
odtwriter is part of docutils,
a set of tools for converting plain text files into other formats, such
as HTML, XML, and LaTeX. This means that you can output the formatted
text file into other formats besides ODF. This is a more efficient
approach than creating an ODT document in Writer and then jumping
through hoops to turn it into, for example, a clean HTML file.
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