[Labs-l] MediaWiki to LaTeX Compiler

Sun May 25 11:02:19 UTC 2014

I had a try using an article on Chinese Wikipedia. Although I'm not sure
whether the cause is in generated LaTeX source or the way you invoke LaTeX,
the most notable problem is that in output PDF, word wrap doesn't take
place correctly so almost every line overflows. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap#Word_wrapping_in_text_containing_Chinese.2C_Japanese.2C_and_Koreanfor
more information.

-Liangent

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Dirk Hünniger <dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
> if you want the tex source go for the command line version and use the -c
> command line option. If you want to convert from tex to mediawiki use
> pandoc. In the imprint of each pdf there is a link to the sourceforge page.
> Its slow, but I cannot make it any faster. Its mostly the runtime of LaTeX
> itself. I already invested two weeks in optimizing speed. In particular its
> using multiple cores, while in my code. But well there is not much you can
> do with multiple cores when running LaTeX itself. You could actully get
> some speed by using native cores, but the administration is not that easy.
> It also says on the main page that it will take up to ten minutes.
> Yours Dirk
>
>
> On 2014-05-25 11:40, Gryllida wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, 25 May 2014, at 18:02, Dirk Hünniger wrote:
>>
>>> It not a private server anymore. Its now running on Wmflabs already.
>>>
>>> http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org
>>>
>> I would probably link to the source code and a bug tracker on its main
>> page.
>> - I see it generated a PDF. Nicely formatted. :) But the TeX source would
>> be also useful.
>> - It would be nice to be able to convert back from tex to wiki markup
>> also.
>> - It also appears to be dog slow (about 5 minutes).
>>
>> Gryllida.
>>
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