I wrote myself a script to convert Open Document files to Markdown. Being able to do "odt2txt.py mydoc.odt | less" is the main motivation, but it also works for doing command line conversion of odt to html by combining odt2txt with any of the Markdown implementations. If anyone uses OpenOffice and wants to check it out: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/odt2txt.php - yuri -- http://www.freewisdom.org/