Converting Styles to Manual Formatting

[schrompf]

Hi everyone,

it is a common task for Writer users working with documents coming from other people to convert those people's manual formatting to proper logical markup, i.e. styles, and I've found a lot of threads on that issue.

I'd like to (or rather, I have to) go the other way round. I have to submit an article to a book's editor who requested that no styles be used. All the formatting (bold headings, italic emphases...) has to be hard-coded, physical markup.

Now my question is: how do turn a document that makes proper use of styles into a document that doesn't -- while, of course, retaining its appearance? So that, for example, a heading is not marked (logically) as, say, »Heading 2«, but as »default« with all its formatting coded physically. I've been thinking about converting the document to some old, simple format that does not use styles, but even the oldest one I could think of (RTF) seems to do.

Any hints are appreciated, thanks a lot!
best,
Nils.

[jrkrideau]

Well if RFT won't do it, you could just post a text version into OOo or Word and hand format everything but this seems perverse.

Any idea of why the editor wants a hard-formated document? I can see why one might want one that is not formatted at all but hard formattig?
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jrkrideau
Kingston ON Canada
Currently using Windows 7 & OOo 3.4.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 & LibreOffice 3.5.2.2

[schrompf]

thanks for your reply!

[jrkrideau]