[ Thanks to Dmitri Popov for this link. ]

* Using odtwriter, you can generate ODF files on machines that don't have OpenOffice.org or other ODF-compatible word processors installed (e.g. you are running a lightweight Linux distro).

* You can use whatever text editor you like as your distraction-free writing environment, leaving the task of producing the properly formatted document to odtwriter.

* odtwriter has a few features that are not available in OpenOffice.org. For example, OpenOffice.org doesn't support syntax highlighting, so making code blocks in a Writer document more legible and pretty is a non-trivial task. odfwriter, in turn, can apply syntax highlighting to the code blocks in the final odt document."