[Labs-l] MediaWiki to LaTeX Compiler

Sun May 25 11:18:16 UTC 2014

Hi,
I didn't take any special care about CJK. Its a bit hard for me since I 
cannot read any of these languages myself. Maybe you can have a look at 
the LaTeX source and tell me what I need to change. Currently no CJK 
package is loaded. The only thing I am doing is to switch to ttf fonts 
that contain CJK characters when I need to print them. Also I am using 
babel packages. For some languages I get proper hyphenation this way, 
but apparently something does not work here for Chinese.
Yours Dirk
On 2014-05-25 13:02, Liangent wrote:
> 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_Korean 
> for more information.
>
> -Liangent
>
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Dirk Hünniger 
> <dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com <mailto: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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