Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hi its on Labs now. http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/ The only problem is that only about five people a day are using it. Its good on the one hand since the server is small. On the other hand the might be some people who would like to use it but still don't find it. So if anybody got an idea how to make it more publicly known just tell me. Yours Dirk On 2013-11-18 5:49, addshorewiki wrote: Why not set it up on Labs? :) On 17 November 2013 20:45, Dirk Hünniger dirk.hunniger [at] googlemailwrote: Hello, I also put up a web version of the mediawiki to latex converter. http://mediawiki2latex.mooo.com/ The machine it is running on is really slow (like an intel atom) Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 12/11/2013 01:36 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Could you take a look at the attached PDF, generated from https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%82 with our not-yet-deployed new software? Any Malayam-specific feedback you could provide would be very useful. The output is very good. Did not notice any issues. The hyphenation in some languages should use non-visible hyphen characters. XeTeX allows customizing it(hyphenchar). In the specific case of Malayalam, people normally use U+200C for causing line break without visible hyphen. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Sure, I'd love to look at your code. Hopefully we can avoid reinventing the wheel *too* many times. Is it available some where? Or a written report? --scott ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy. Could you take a look at the attached PDF, generated from https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%82 with our not-yet-deployed new software? Any Malayam-specific feedback you could provide would be very useful. --scott ps. the images in the pdf are deliberately very low resolution to keep the overall size of the PDF small. -- (http://cscott.net) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:06 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Could you take a look at the attached PDF, generated from https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%82 with our not-yet-deployed new software? Any Malayam-specific feedback you could provide would be very useful. It was brought to my attention that this mailing list strips attachments. I've uploaded the PDF to http://cscott.net/wmf/malayalam.pdf --scott -- (http://cscott.net) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hi Scott, I saw you started to work on an LaTeX Export yourself. I needed more than 3 year for mine. So I want you to be aware that it might take you a long time to come up with something that really works. I also want to offer you to share all my experience with you if you decide to do it yourself, since it might significantly speed up your develpment process. Unfortunatly I am currently neither unimployed nor a student anymore and can not esaly get out of my current full time position at university. So I do not have much time actully help you. My project is actually also using xelatex. The problem is that it is using freeserif by default and you have to manully enable megafont to get full 16 Bit Unicode support. Still this does not solve the problem that some codepoints in unicode stand for more than one character and you have to take into account external information to guess the character to print. Yours Dirk On 26.11.2013 16:01, C. Scott Ananian wrote: The new PDF rendering pipeline does indeed use XeLaTeX. I haven't used it to typeset non-latin scripts since a summer I spent at SIL in 1996 (and that might have been Omega, not XeLaTeX), so if you wanted to pitch in and help out I'd greatly appreciate it. To start with, short example LaTeX articles typeset in your script would probably help me ensure I've got all the prologue bits and packages right. --scott On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
The new PDF rendering pipeline does indeed use XeLaTeX. I haven't used it to typeset non-latin scripts since a summer I spent at SIL in 1996 (and that might have been Omega, not XeLaTeX), so if you wanted to pitch in and help out I'd greatly appreciate it. To start with, short example LaTeX articles typeset in your script would probably help me ensure I've got all the prologue bits and packages right. --scott On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- (http://cscott.net) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
The new PDF rendering pipeline includes a new wikitext to latex converter, based on the Parsoid parser. You might want to check out: https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCollection%2FOfflineContentGenerator%2Fbundler and https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FCollection%2FOfflineContentGenerator%2Flatex_renderer to see if they are useful to you. --scott ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Why not set it up on Labs? :) On 17 November 2013 20:45, Dirk Hünniger dirk.hunni...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello, I also put up a web version of the mediawiki to latex converter. http://mediawiki2latex.mooo.com/ The machine it is running on is really slow (like an intel atom) Yours Dirk On 12.11.2013 13:09, Fred Bauder wrote: I have a log of what happens on when the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf are entered on the command line of ubuntu (13.10) Better than TV... Happy to send it to anyone. Fred ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hello, I also put up a web version of the mediawiki to latex converter. http://mediawiki2latex.mooo.com/ The machine it is running on is really slow (like an intel atom) Yours Dirk On 12.11.2013 13:09, Fred Bauder wrote: I have a log of what happens on when the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf are entered on the command line of ubuntu (13.10) Better than TV... Happy to send it to anyone. Fred ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
I have a log of what happens on when the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf are entered on the command line of ubuntu (13.10) Better than TV... Happy to send it to anyone. Fred ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
I'm not on Ubuntu 13.10 (still running the LTS of 12.04); but I tried downloading and installing the cabal manually just to try it out. I'm getting the following error from installing the cabal in mediawiki2latex-7.1.tar.gz; any thoughts? (Also for some reason the build tells me that it's attempting to build 6.9 -- issue in the cabal file?) ... Loading package file-embed-0.0.5 ... linking ... done. [ 7 of 23] Compiling Tools( src/Tools.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/Tools.o ) [ 8 of 23] Compiling WikiHelper ( src/WikiHelper.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/WikiHelper.o ) [ 9 of 23] Compiling TableHelper ( src/TableHelper.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/TableHelper.o ) [10 of 23] Compiling WikiLinkHelper ( src/WikiLinkHelper.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/WikiLinkHelper.o ) [11 of 23] Compiling LatexRenderer( src/LatexRenderer.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/LatexRenderer.o ) [12 of 23] Compiling UrlAnalyse ( src/UrlAnalyse.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/UrlAnalyse.o ) src/UrlAnalyse.hs:75:45: Not in scope: `unpackChars' cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: mediawiki2latex-6.9 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Dirk Hünniger dirk.hunni...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, in the current version of ubuntu (13.10) you can compile pages from MediaWiki to LaTeX using the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hello, I downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/files/mediawiki2latex/7.1/ and simply ran make. This did not trigger cabal. You also have to install the build dependencies before you compile Build-Depends: debhelper (= 8), ghc, libghc-regex-compat-dev, libghc-http-dev, cabal-install, libghc-hxt-dev, libghc-split-dev, libghc-blaze-html-dev, libghc-file-embed-dev, libghc-highlighting-kate-dev, libghc-hxt-http-dev, libghc-regex-pcre-dev, libghc-temporary-dev, libghc-url-dev, libghc-utf8-string-dev, libghc-utility-ht-dev, libghc-http-conduit-dev Indeed I forgot to increase the version number from 6.9 to 7.1. But what I recommed you to do it to download the deb for you architecture from the bottom of that page and install it with a graphical package manager frontend http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/mediawiki2latex A friend of mine was successfull with this procedure with mint lts which should be similar to yours. I will be on a buisness trip until Thursday, so my next reply will take some time. Yours Dirk On 12.11.2013 01:10, Matthew Walker wrote: I'm not on Ubuntu 13.10 (still running the LTS of 12.04); but I tried downloading and installing the cabal manually just to try it out. I'm getting the following error from installing the cabal in mediawiki2latex-7.1.tar.gz; any thoughts? (Also for some reason the build tells me that it's attempting to build 6.9 -- issue in the cabal file?) ... Loading package file-embed-0.0.5 ... linking ... done. [ 7 of 23] Compiling Tools( src/Tools.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/Tools.o ) [ 8 of 23] Compiling WikiHelper ( src/WikiHelper.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/WikiHelper.o ) [ 9 of 23] Compiling TableHelper ( src/TableHelper.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/TableHelper.o ) [10 of 23] Compiling WikiLinkHelper ( src/WikiLinkHelper.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/WikiLinkHelper.o ) [11 of 23] Compiling LatexRenderer( src/LatexRenderer.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/LatexRenderer.o ) [12 of 23] Compiling UrlAnalyse ( src/UrlAnalyse.hs, dist/build/mediawiki2latex/mediawiki2latex-tmp/UrlAnalyse.o ) src/UrlAnalyse.hs:75:45: Not in scope: `unpackChars' cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: mediawiki2latex-6.9 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Dirk Hünniger dirk.hunni...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, in the current version of ubuntu (13.10) you can compile pages from MediaWiki to LaTeX using the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hello, in the current version of ubuntu (13.10) you can compile pages from MediaWiki to LaTeX using the commands: sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hi! Well, I was thinking that maybe both formats could coexist in the same project/web, and as soon as somebody wants to export it, it would be possible to convert the wikitext into latex and export both. No idea if it would have any practical use, though. Btw, great music! :) Micru On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Lee Worden worden@gmail.com wrote: Hi Micru! What use case do you have in mind? The main use of latex in WorkingWiki is simply authoring .tex files directly... Lee Worden p.s. I meant to post the What is WorkingWiki video here that I put on twitter during Wikimania: http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=D8pwr-Uizf4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8pwr-Uizf4 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:44 -0400 From: David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.**orgwikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org I think this is going to be great news for WorkingWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/**wiki/Extension:WorkingWikihttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki Cheers, Micru On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Dirk Hünniger date=2013-08-04 time=10:05:35 +0200 Hello, I made a new debian package, which resolves the security issues you mentioned. It is available here: http://sourceforge.net/**projects/wb2pdf/files/**mediawiki2latex/6.5/http://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/files/mediawiki2latex/6.5/ Yours Dirk I had to use a mailing list archive to see the full thread here, which started way back in 2004(!!!): http://www.gossamer-threads.**com/lists/wiki/wikitech/281372http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/281372 A highlight I noticed: the wb2pdf that Dirk links above when from a 90+meg download to only a 2.8 meg Debian package. Thanks for your persistence, Dirk. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | __**_ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l __**_ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
quote name=Dirk Hünniger date=2013-08-04 time=10:05:35 +0200 Hello, I made a new debian package, which resolves the security issues you mentioned. It is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/files/mediawiki2latex/6.5/ Yours Dirk I had to use a mailing list archive to see the full thread here, which started way back in 2004(!!!): http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/281372 A highlight I noticed: the wb2pdf that Dirk links above when from a 90+meg download to only a 2.8 meg Debian package. Thanks for your persistence, Dirk. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
I think this is going to be great news for WorkingWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki Cheers, Micru On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Dirk Hünniger date=2013-08-04 time=10:05:35 +0200 Hello, I made a new debian package, which resolves the security issues you mentioned. It is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/files/mediawiki2latex/6.5/ Yours Dirk I had to use a mailing list archive to see the full thread here, which started way back in 2004(!!!): http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/281372 A highlight I noticed: the wb2pdf that Dirk links above when from a 90+meg download to only a 2.8 meg Debian package. Thanks for your persistence, Dirk. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hi Micru! What use case do you have in mind? The main use of latex in WorkingWiki is simply authoring .tex files directly... Lee Worden p.s. I meant to post the What is WorkingWiki video here that I put on twitter during Wikimania: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8pwr-Uizf4 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:04:44 -0400 From: David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org I think this is going to be great news for WorkingWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WorkingWiki Cheers, Micru On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Greg Grossmeier g...@wikimedia.org wrote: quote name=Dirk Hünniger date=2013-08-04 time=10:05:35 +0200 Hello, I made a new debian package, which resolves the security issues you mentioned. It is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/files/mediawiki2latex/6.5/ Yours Dirk I had to use a mailing list archive to see the full thread here, which started way back in 2004(!!!): http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/281372 A highlight I noticed: the wb2pdf that Dirk links above when from a 90+meg download to only a 2.8 meg Debian package. Thanks for your persistence, Dirk. Greg -- | Greg GrossmeierGPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @gregA18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hello, I made a new debian package, which resolves the security issues you mentioned. It is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/files/mediawiki2latex/6.5/ Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
You mean the mega font? That's actually 207M uncompressed :) That should probably go to a different package (and depend on it). I don't see why it couldn't fallback to another available font if it's not available, though. I could indeed work without that font. But in this case I will create font switching commands in the latex file. This means that it won't compile with pdflatex, since that does not allow font switching inside headings. Furthermore the LaTeX file will become significantly less readable. I also cannot put the fonts to another package, since the Debian project is not going to accept that package, as I just investigated. So essentially it is not possible to create a significantly better deb file from my point of view. Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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You mean the mega font? That's actually 207M uncompressed :) That should probably go to a different package (and depend on it). I don't see why it couldn't fallback to another available font if it's not available, though. The point is that the change of the font has to happen inside a run of LaTeX compiler. I tried that and it sometimes works but often the compiler does not produce any output if I do that. So the best is to give the compiler one font for the whole document and let run with that. It seems you're creating it from wqyzenhei + unifont + freeserif fonts. Why do you need to merge them? I merged them because changing the font in LaTeX does not always work, especially inside headings which become part of the table of contents. I essentially did the tmp trick in order to get around the work of researching where to install each file and to properly fix the path names in the code and to test that. In case of doubt, you should have placed the folder in /usr/lib A number of would be better placed at /usr/share, though. But I'm not sure what are many files. For instance, what's the purpose of geturl and pa programs? The main part of the program is written in the wonderful and easy to learn purely functional programming language Haskell. Some minor parts are written in Python3, these two parts need to communicate. Currently pa and geturl are binaries created by the Haskell Compiler ghc. pa is essitially a compiler for the mediawiki language, it parses to a tree and writes it down as LaTeX. The problem with the mediawiki language is that it allows improper bracketing of tags and thus is not context free and thus there is no BNF for it and thus all normal parsers are ruled out and thus you need to use a more obscure technology like monadic parser combinators in Haskell. But since you seem to have a good idea where to put which file, you maybe could give me some hints on that, since that would make my work much easier. And why do you have copies at bin/ and dist/build? Furthermore, why are they different? Build artifacts are also common there. I will remember this for future versions of the deb file. Essentially I only need the stuff in the bin directory. The stuff in the build directory is just created by the ghc build tools. Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
Hugo Vincent hugo at bluewatersys.com writes: Hi everyone, I recently set up a MediaWiki (http://server.bluewatersys.com/w90n740/) and I need to extra the content from it and convert it into LaTeX syntax for printed documentation. I have googled for a suitable OSS solution but nothing was apparent. I would prefer a script written in Python, but any recommendations would be very welcome. Do you know of anything suitable? Kind Regards, Hugo Vincent, Bluewater Systems. This problem is actually sovled there is an easy way to export mediawiki articles to LaTeX and PDF. see http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf Yours Dirk Hünniger ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 16 June 2012 10:51, Dirk Hünniger hunni...@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de wrote: This problem is actually sovled there is an easy way to export mediawiki articles to LaTeX and PDF. see http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf Interesting, but why is it so large? Is the source code available? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 06/16/2012 12:03 PM, Svip wrote: Interesting, but why is it so large? Is the source code available? The source code is available here http://wb2pdf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wb2pdf/ The Binary is large because it contains everything necessery to compile the generated LaTeX code, which is basically a full installation of MikTeX. Yours Dirk Hünniger ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 16/06/12 10:51, Dirk Hünniger wrote: This problem is actually sovled there is an easy way to export mediawiki articles to LaTeX and PDF. see http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf Yours Dirk Hünniger How does it compare with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2LaTeX ? Also, are you aware you're replying to an 8 years old thread? ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 06/16/2012 05:53 PM, Platonides wrote: On 16/06/12 10:51, Dirk Hünniger wrote: This problem is actually sovled there is an easy way to export mediawiki articles to LaTeX and PDF.see http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdfYours Dirk Hünniger How does it compare withhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2LaTeX ? I invested much more time in the development. So it is probably more complete. If you really want to know I can make a feature by feature list. But its going to be very long. Just to give you an idea how deeply I went into detail I give you a question I had to think about. If a table is very wide, it has to be landscape, but if it is a nested one it must not. And if it as very long it has to span several pages. And if it begins with a set of rows continuously containing at least on header cell each, those rows have to be repeated on top of each new page of the table. And by the way what happens if these cells contain footnotes. Sounds like fun? An important advantage for the user is that you can immediately use it in wikipedia, wikibooks, etc. This is because it is running on the client side. On the other hand Wiki2LaTeX runs on the server side. That means it needs to be installed by the administrator of the Wiki. I will also provide a server side version of my software if requested to do so. Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 16/06/12 12:25, Dirk Hünniger wrote: On 06/16/2012 12:03 PM, Svip wrote: Interesting, but why is it so large? Is the source code available? The source code is available here http://wb2pdf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wb2pdf/ The Binary is large because it contains everything necessery to compile the generated LaTeX code, which is basically a full installation of MikTeX. Yours Dirk Hünniger Have you heard of dependencies? You have to download a 364M file, which extracts to 898M Of those 94M are Linux-specific. The rest includes miktex files, object files, dlls, exes, imagemagick, tcl/tk, Olson db... The real code seem to lie at trunk/wb2pdf/trunk/src, being just 4MB. And if we look at the linux version, it isn't better. It does not only place everything into a /usr/bin subfolder, it copies everything (90M) to /tmp on each run. Completely oblivious of security. Running this program on a shared system is a vulnerability on itself. Why don't you make a package with just the wb2pdf specific files? Also, temporary build files are not needed on a release. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 06/16/2012 06:49 PM, Platonides wrote: Have you heard of dependencies?You have to download a 364M file, which extracts to 898MOf those 94M are Linux-specific. The rest includes miktex files, objectfiles, dlls, exes, imagemagick, tcl/tk, Olson db...The real code seem to lie at trunk/wb2pdf/trunk/src, being just 4MB. And if we look at the linux version, it isn't better. It does not onlyplace everything into a /usr/bin subfolder, it copies everything (90M)to /tmp on each run. Completely oblivious of security.Running this program on a shared system is a vulnerability on itself. Why don't you make a package with just the wb2pdf specific files?Also, temporary build files are not needed on a release. I provide one download that is easy to use for any user of both Linux an Windows. Thus is obviously contains files unnecessary for each of the two operating systems. I have heard of dependencies and the .deb contains a lot of them, and they are downloaded when it is installed. I can produce a higher quality .deb file. It will still be 90MByte because I need a full Unicode font. To be precise I need twelve variants of it and thats the 90MByte. I essentially did the tmp trick in order to get around the work of researching where to install each file and to properly fix the path names in the code and to test that. So for now you can run the software, you can test every feature you want, and if you or somebody else decided s/he wants to use it, I will make a .deb file that fits yours needs. This will probably take two weeks, with most of the time being spent on chose proper directories. Yours Dirk ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter
On 16/06/12 19:14, Dirk Hünniger wrote: On 06/16/2012 06:49 PM, Platonides wrote: Have you heard of dependencies?You have to download a 364M file, which extracts to 898MOf those 94M are Linux-specific. The rest includes miktex files, objectfiles, dlls, exes, imagemagick, tcl/tk, Olson db...The real code seem to lie at trunk/wb2pdf/trunk/src, being just 4MB. And if we look at the linux version, it isn't better. It does not onlyplace everything into a /usr/bin subfolder, it copies everything (90M)to /tmp on each run. Completely oblivious of security.Running this program on a shared system is a vulnerability on itself. Why don't you make a package with just the wb2pdf specific files?Also, temporary build files are not needed on a release. I provide one download that is easy to use for any user of both Linux an Windows. Thus is obviously contains files unnecessary for each of the two operating systems. If it was just a few extra MB, I could agree. But 94M / 800M IMHO are past the point here you should split per OS. I have heard of dependencies and the .deb contains a lot of them, and they are downloaded when it is installed. I can produce a higher quality .deb file. It will still be 90MByte because I need a full Unicode font. To be precise I need twelve variants of it and thats the 90MByte. You mean the mega font? That's actually 207M uncompressed :) That should probably go to a different package (and depend on it). I don't see why it couldn't fallback to another available font if it's not available, though. Many wikis are written in just a tiny subset of unicode. It seems you're creating it from wqyzenhei + unifont + freeserif fonts. Why do you need to merge them? I essentially did the tmp trick in order to get around the work of researching where to install each file and to properly fix the path names in the code and to test that. In case of doubt, you should have placed the folder in /usr/lib A number of would be better placed at /usr/share, though. But I'm not sure what are many files. For instance, what's the purpose of geturl and pa programs? And why do you have copies at bin/ and dist/build? Furthermore, why are they different? Build artifacts are also common there. So for now you can run the software, you can test every feature you want, and if you or somebody else decided s/he wants to use it, I will make a .deb file that fits yours needs. This will probably take two weeks, with most of the time being spent on chose proper directories. I feel a bit wary of running that :S ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
