There are some things of (la)tex which are not supported by tex4ht,
including the reported problem.
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn4.html
Personally, I think U_\mathrm{self} is a degraded form of math.
-eitan
> This point in the manuscript is the same point where the oolatex run
> complained with
> ! Argument of \new:mfont has an extra }.
> <inserted text>
> \par
> l.184 U_\mathrm{
> self}= 4\pi kT \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}{'}
>
>
>
> I don't know why oolatex is complaining about the \mathrm box, I'm
> pretty sure it's standard LaTeX (running latex normally does not give
> the same error). Breaking at this point must be what's generating the
> broken odt code which OpenOffice cannot read.
>
> Instead of writing $U_\mathrm{self}$, I can add extra braces
> $U_{\mathrm{self}}$. oolatex is then happy. But since this is not
> required for normal LaTeX, it's an onerous demand and prone to
> repeating the same problem any time you try to convert any normal LaTeX
> document.
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