[texhax] Wikipedia to LaTeX Converter

[Dirk Hünniger]

Hi William,

Indeed you can use mediawikis "collections" to compile books composed of
multiple articles.

There is a command line option called "book mode" that you will see when
calling mediawiki2latex without parameters. The graphical users
interfaces of mediawiki2latex don't support that. You have to run it
form the command line.

Yours Dirk


On 12/03/2018 06:12 PM, 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 <mailto: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     is outdated.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
>>     <mailto: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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