[texhax] Wikipedia to LaTeX Converter

[William Adams]

Thanks! That sounds perfect!

William


On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:00 PM Dirk Hünniger <dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi William,
>
> there is also an other template mechanism inside MediaWiki.
>
> You can create a new wiki page with that contend:
>
> {{::MyWikipageOne}}
>
> {{::MyWikipageTwo}}
>
> If the pages MyWikipageOne and MyWikipageTwo exist on the wiki the
> resulting page will include both pages.
>
> This works with the command line as well as the gui as well as the web
> interface of mediawiki2latex.
>
> Yours Dirk
> On 03.12.18 18:12, William Adams wrote:
>
> My apologies for missing that documentation --- I'll run it down and get
> it sorted out.
>
> Have you worked up a template or system or mechanism for getting more than
> a page into a book?
>
> William
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:49 AM Dirk Hünniger <
> dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi William,
>>
>> sorry the information about miktex on the mediawiki2latex website is
>> outdated. The point is that the needed fonts are not installed on a default
>> miktex installation and a custom installation of miktex used to ship with
>> mediawiki2latex including the fonts in question.
>>
>> If you want to compile on Windows you should follow the installation
>> instructions for Windows given on the mediawiki2latex website. After that
>> you can compile the sources created be mediawiki2latex inside the Ubuntu
>> app using the xelatex command in this app.
>> Yours Dirk
>>
>> On 12/03/2018 05:20 PM, William Adams wrote:
>>
>> Wow.
>>
>> Thank you for this! It's something which I've wanted for a _very_ long
>> time.
>>
>> I've invested a fair bit of effort into:
>> https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> Did come up against some errors running this on MikTeX:
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Command \LaTeXDoubleBoxOpenTemplate already defined.
>>
>> Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
>>
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: Command \Smiley already defined.
>>
>> Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.
>>
>>
>> ! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
>>
>> !
>>
>> ! The font "cmunrm" cannot be found.
>>
>> ! The font "cmunbx" cannot be found.
>>
>> ! The font "cmunti" cannot be found.
>>
>> ! The font "cmunbi" cannot be found.
>>
>> ! The font "cmuntt" cannot be found.
>>
>>
>> And I told it to just run --- but
>>
>>
>> l.37 \pagestyle
>>
>> {scrheadings}
>>
>>
>> (That makes 100 errors; please try again.)
>>
>>
>> 10105 words of node memory still in use:
>>
>>
>> 50 hlist, 5 vlist, 6 rule, 5 local_par, 2 dir, 4 math, 275 glue, 19 kern,
>> 12
>>
>>
>> penalty, 1087 glyph, 64 attribute, 112 glue_spec, 64 attribute_list, 3
>> temp, 5
>>
>>
>> if_stack, 1 write, 1 pdf_start_link, 1 pdf_end_link, 1 pdf_action nodes
>>
>>
>> avail lists: 1:1,2:27,3:47,4:9,5:6,8:51,9:7,10:2,11:3
>>
>>
>> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 4:46 PM Dirk Hünniger <
>> dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> there is an open source Wikipedia to LaTeX converter available as a web
>>> service
>>>
>>> http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/
>>>
>>> If the server is too crowded you may install it locally (Debian, Ubuntu,
>>> Windows)
>>>
>>> https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf
>>>
>>> Yours Dirk Hünniger
>>>
>>> (maintainer of mediawiki2latex)
>>>
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