Open Office has a far richer format than HTML allows (e.g. "this is a footnote", "this footer on every page, 2cm from the bottom", ...). Of course, one could ex

Open Office has a far richer format than HTML allows (e.g. "this is a footnote", "this footer on every page, 2cm from the bottom", ...). Of course, one could extend HTML to handle all that, but just starting with XML is cleaner.