On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're making a collective document with MediaWiki and want to allow the user > to export the whole document in MsWord and PDF formats. The idea is to > create XML-representation of the result and then turn it to doc and pdf. > > 1) I have no idea how to implement the conversion to MSWord. Maybe with XSL > and FOP? > 2) It would be great to first generate the LaTeX representation and then > compile it to the document. Which tools can you recommend to convert > XML\JSON to Latex?
I don't have great answers for 1 or 2, especially based on your suggestion that the document go through an intermediate XML representation. If you can drop that requirement, then you might be able to use something like wiki2latex [1] for PDF generation, although there are some scary warnings about its security, at the moment. As to MS Word; I've found that MS Word actually reads well-marked-up (X)HTML pretty well. Would it be possible to simply download the printable version of a page as (X)HTML and open it in Word? Another option that I *just* learned about (while going to Wikipedia to try out the printable version -> HTML -> MS Word), is to use whatever extension Wikipedia is running to generate PDFs of pages (see, e.g., [2]). The results there look reasonably sharp. That's provided by the Collection extension [3]. //JT [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2LaTeX [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=rendering&return_to=Semantic+MediaWiki&collection_id=505763692601abed&writer=rl [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection -- Joshua Taylor, http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~tayloj/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
