Converting Open Office (odt) files to Latex

OpenOffice used to have a LaTeX export functionality, which was later removed, I guess. Nevertheless, there is a LaTeX writer:

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-writer2latex writer2latex

Or, if your distribution uses LibreOffice, use libreoffice-writer2latex instead of the above.

Just confirm all messages with y. After installing, you can use it with w2l

w2l your-document.odt

which will create a .tex file with the same name. The formatting is pretty basic, but I think it gets the job done.

If you wish to edit it in Lyx after that, just concatenate the commands, something like that:

w2l your-document.odt && /usr/bin/env lyx your-document.tex &

_{I tested the conversion on Ubuntu 11.04 with the default LibreOffice installation}