[ILUG] open office writer to text converter...

[Kae Verens]

kevin lyda wrote:
> does anyone know of a utility for open office writer docs that will
> convert them to plain text?  i use mutt and it fires off antiword for
> word docs so they just appear inline in received mail.
> 
> i'm wondering if there's something similar for .odt/.sxw docs.


IIRC, Open Office uses an XML schema for its docs. it could be a simple matter 
of removing all cases of /<[^>]*>/

I have not researched this in any way.

Kae