[Labs-l] MediaWiki to LaTeX Compiler

Sun May 25 11:32:53 UTC 2014

I don't really have an idea about how to "go for the command line version
and use the -c command line option"; I know nothing about Haskell anyway...

I hope that it's available on the web, is it possible to add a checkbox or
something?

-Liangent

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Dirk Hünniger <dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com
> wrote:

>  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_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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