Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2014-07-17 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-12-11 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-12-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-12-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-12-10 Thread C. Scott Ananian
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-12-08 Thread dirk.hunniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-25 Thread C. Scott Ananian
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-25 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-18 Thread addshorewiki
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-17 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-12 Thread Fred Bauder
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-11 Thread Matthew Walker
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-11 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-11-10 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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 ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-08-14 Thread David Cuenca
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,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-08-13 Thread Greg Grossmeier
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-08-13 Thread David Cuenca
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-08-13 Thread Lee Worden
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,

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2013-08-04 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-18 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-17 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Svip
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Platonides
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Platonides
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Dirk Hünniger
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki to Latex Converter

2012-06-16 Thread Platonides
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