[texhax] Wikipedia to LaTeX Converter

[William Adams]

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 outdated.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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