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<DIV>MWE (test.tex):</DIV>
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<DIV>\documentclass{article}</DIV>
<DIV>\begin{document}</DIV>
<DIV>Hello World!</DIV>
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<DIV>Some math: $\alpha$ and $\beta$</DIV>
<DIV>\end{document}</DIV>
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<DIV>Commands:</DIV>
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<DIV>1. htlatex test "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo
-cvalidate"</DIV>
<DIV>2. Use LibreOffice to open the test.odt.</DIV>
<DIV> Save as .docx if you want to read it with Windows Word.</DIV>
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<DIV>Running the first command will produce a test.odt, but if you open the file
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<DIV>LibreOffice, you will see an error.</DIV>
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<DIV>Before describing where is this error from, I first discuss some bugs in
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<DIV>current MiKTeX's setup of tex4ht. The first set of bugs is about
subdirectory specfication.</DIV>
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<DIV>Open tex4ht.env (in MiKTeX's subdirectory) with an editor, </DIV>
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<DIV>Replace "%%~/texmf-dist/tex4ht/bin/tex4ht.jar" with
"c:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\tex4ht\bin\tex4ht.jar"</DIV>
<DIV>Replace "%%~/texmf-dist/tex4ht/xtpipes/" with
"c:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\tex4ht\xtpipes\</DIV>
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<DIV>There are 12 instances for each to be replaced.</DIV>
<DIV>What we are doing here is to change directory format form TL to
MiKTeX.</DIV>
<DIV>(If you use MiKTeX 64bit version, "c:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX ..." should be
"c:\PROGRA~1\MIKTEX ...")</DIV>
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<DIV>There is another bug in current MiKTeX system (2016.6),</DIV>
<DIV>the first command line above needs a space after "xhtml,":</DIV>
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<DIV>1. htlatex test "xhtml, ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo
-cvalidate"</DIV>
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<DIV>If you don't leave a space, MiKTeX's latex get confused, and can't
run.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now back to the bug in tex4ht system.</DIV>
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<DIV>After running the first command line, you will get test.odt.</DIV>
<DIV>Open the file with LibreOffice, you will see an error message telling you
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<DIV>that something is wrong in styles.xml (line 94, column 128).</DIV>
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<DIV>test.odt is a zip file. I unzip test.odt, and open styles.xml,</DIV>
<DIV>my editor give the following message:</DIV>
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<DIV>"Some characters were lost during the conversion"</DIV>
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<DIV>I go to line 94, and check the end of line:</DIV>
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<DIV>text:bullet-char="? ></DIV>
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<DIV>I guess it should be something like: text:bullet-char="." ></DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway, following line 90 of styles.xml, I change it to </DIV>
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<DIV>text:bullet-char="-" ></DIV>
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<DIV>Save it back, and now there is no error when opening test.odt with
LibreOffice.</DIV>
<DIV>I can also save the file as test.docx, and read it with Windows Word.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope this helps.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tsong-Min Wu</DIV>
<DIV>National Taiwan University</DIV>
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