# Using the templates

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Using the templates
You can use some special Writer templates provided with Writer2LaTeX configurations to create your documents. Using the styles supported by these templates, you can easily create standard LaTeX documents using the opportunities of standard LaTeX document classes.
For this initial version, templates for the standard LaTeX classes article are provided. More templates will be added later (report, book, beamer...), and you can also add your own templates.
The article template
Choose File - New - Templates and Documents - Writer2LaTeX
This template contains a number of styles that corresponds to LaTeX code. If you use these styles and makes sure to use the configuration W2L: Article when you convert your document (this is selected automatically) with Writer2LaTeX, you will get a result that resembles a handwritten LaTeX file. Note that hard formatting and any other styles will be ignored. The available styles are summarized in the following tables.
Paragraph styles
Title styles

%PRODUCTNAME Writer Style
LaTeX code
title
\title{...}
author
\author{...}
date
\date{...}
abstract title
renews \abstractname
abstract
abstract environment

Note that also \maketitle is added at the end of a sequence of title, author and date.
Heading styles
Note that the names of the heading styles are localized in %PRODUCTNAME Writer

part
\part{...}
Heading 2
\section{...}
Heading 3
\subsection{...}
Heading 4
\subsubsection{...}
Heading 5
\paragraph{...}
Heading 6
\subparagraph{...}

Other paragraph styles

flushleft
flushleft environment
flushright
flushright environment
center
center environment
verse
verse environment
quote
quote environment
quotation
quotation environment
verbatim
verbatim environment
theorem
theorem environment
itemize
itemize list
enumerate
enurerate list
description item
description list (item label)
description text
description list (item text)
LaTeX
The text content of the paragraph is inserted as verbatim LaTeX code.

For the verbatim environment, only characters available in the input encoding are accepted. Other characters are converted to question marks and other content is discarded, eg. footnotes.
Special paragraph styles for tables
%PRODUCTNAME Writer supports multipage tables with repeating headers. LaTeX on the other hand also provides support for repeating foots and special header and foot on the first repspectively last page of the table. The article template provides four special paragraph styles to let you use these LaTeX features. Note that the special pagragraphs appear colored in %PRODUCTNAME Writer for clarity, but the colors will be removed in the export to LaTeX.

table first head
Identifies a row to be used as first head in table
table head
Identifies a row to be used as head in table
table foot
Identifies a row to be used as foot in table
table last foot
Identifies a row to be used as last foot in table

Text styles

verb
\verb|...|
emph
\emph{...}
textrm
\textrm{...}
textsf
\textsf{...}
texttt
\texttt{...}
textup
\textup{...}
textsl
\textsl{...}
textit
\textit{...}
textsc
\textsc{...}
textmd
\textmd{...}
textbf
\textbf{...}
tiny
{\tiny ...}
scriptsize
{\sciptsize ...}
footnotesize
{\footnotesize ...}
small
{\small ...}
normalsize
{\normalsize ...}
large
{\large ...}
Large
{\Large ...}
LARGE
{\LARGE ...}
huge
{\huge ...}
Huge
{\Huge ...}
LaTeX
The text content is inserted as verbatim LaTeX code.

For the \verb command, only characters available in the input encoding are accepted. Other characters are converted to question marks and other content is discarded, eg. footnotes.