Hi, I could not find any type of "source" (aka batmand-howto.odt in this case) of the batmand-howto written by Wesley Tsai and it seems to be partially outdated. Because of that I decided to do a conversation of the PDF to LaTeX so it can be changed more easily. It is quite rough at the moment, but I hope that their is some kind of interest in it. Current sources can be found at http://gitorious.org/projects/batmand-howto and Simon and Marek have write access to mainline.
Best regards, Sven