TechWriter For Linux

TechWriter is a Python software for reading Icon Technology TechWriter documents with simple conversion tools that enable their contents to be exported to other formats.

TechWriter is a mathematical word processor for the RISC OS platform that encourages authors to write documents in a structured style. Unlike other word processors, in which chapters and sections are created by inserting styled text in the appropriate places to create headings, TechWriter documents are collections of nested objects, representing chapters, sections, figures and other elements.

Although this structured, object-based approach is ideal for certain kinds of documents and resembles other document creation systems, it is not easy to convert documents stored in TechWriter's file format to file formats for use with systems such as LaTeX and LyX. TechWriter can export documents as TeX files, but this process doesn't export all the information that some users require, it can produce TeX markup that isn't suitable for re-use, and it requires that the document's author is able to use TechWriter to perform the conversion.

This package aims to help those who want to convert documents written using TechWriter to other formats, extracting their contents reliably and as accurately as possible, by providing a package and some tools for use with the Python_ programming language.