[Labs-l] MediaWiki to LaTeX Compiler

Sun May 25 15:58:48 UTC 2014

I failed to compile your document in it's original form:

(../headers/babel.tex
(/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel-english/english.ldf
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
! Undefined control sequence.
\initiate at active@char #1->\bbl at ifshorthand
                                           {#1}{\bbl at s@initiate at active@char
...
l.585 \initiate at active@char{~}

and I worked around it by commenting out \usepackage[english]{babel} in
../headers/babel.tex

In my experiment I added:

\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{WenQuanYi Zen Hei}

to main.tex after \usepackage{fontspec}, and it improves CJK typesetting a
lot.

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is contained in
https://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-wqy-zenhei

-Liangent

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Dirk Hünniger <dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com
> wrote:

>  Hi,
> I am sending you the latex source of the main page of the chinese
> wikipedia as attachment.
> 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
>
>
> 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> 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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