1 Introduction What it does -- rst2odt.py/odtwriter.py translates reST (reStructuredText) into a Open Document Format .odt file. You can learn more about the ODF format here: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC Open Document at Wikipedia You should be able to open documents (.odt files) generated with rst2odt.py in OpenOffice/oowriter. I use OpenOffice version 2.