LibreOffice Conference 2026

Olivier Hallot

Founding member and former director of The Document Foundation (TDF) Board; currently TDF’s Documentation Coordinator, LibreOffice Help maintainer, and TDF’s representative on the OASIS Open Document Format Technical Committee.


Sessions

09-10
15:00
30min
Formatting Best Practices for LibreOffice Guides
Olivier Hallot

LibreOffice Writer is a powerful tool for document editing and has many degrees of freedom for creating a document. Nevertheless, when it comes to documentation production and maintenance, some rules must apply to narrow the freedom and allow use of automation in text formatting. We explain the use of the Sanity Check extension written by B. Antonio Fernandez for creating consistent homogeneous text document format.

c) Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
Auditorium
09-11
10:30
30min
Recent ODF-TC discussions, the road to ODF 1.5 known at the time.
Olivier Hallot

Report on the recent progress of ODF at the technical committee, the current road to ODF 1.5

e) Open Document Format, Digital Sovereignty and Interoperability
Track Room 2
09-11
12:30
30min
The Bookshelf Project for Quick LibreOffice Documentation Access
Olivier Hallot

The Bookshelf project was created to allow quick access of LibreOffice guides in all relevant media: PDF, ODF, web pages and any other file format. We explain the process of creating an entry in the bookshelf for your book.

c) Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
Track Room 2
09-11
14:30
30min
Transforming LibreOffice Guides into Web Pages for Bookshelf
Olivier Hallot

After sanitation of the chapter formatting of the LibreOffice Guides, we explain how to convert a text document into a web page, with enhancements of web navigation and more features.

c) Localization, Documentation and Native Language Projects
Track Room 2