[Labs-l] MediaWiki to LaTeX Compiler

Sun May 25 12:06:34 UTC 2014

Hi,
I am sending you the latex source of the main page of the chinese 
wikipedia as attachment to your personal Email. You can look at it. But 
if you want to compile it you need to have ubuntu 14.04 and do

sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex
xelatex main.tex

Yours Dirk

PS: If about the -c command line option: Its just
mkdir mylatextree
mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -o 
outputfile.pdf -c mylatextree
So in you don't need any Haskell for that. You just need linux.

On 2014-05-25 13:32, Liangent wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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_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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