Dear All,
I am in the process of trying to build a wiki starting from some legacy word documents with heavy amounts of mathematical content. I have succesfully exported to xhtml with equations represented in mathml (using MathType), but am now stuck with converting the xhtml to wiki markup. Suggestions, anyone?
Many thanks, Jonathan.
Hi Jonathan,
My experience: if your wiki is private, and if you have the administrators rights on it, simply enable html on your wiki. Thus you don't have to bother for old documents which will be interpreted as html, and new writers can still use html or wiki markup for new documents... this solution has many security flaws (among other inconvenients, but it applies perfectly to my use)
Regards
François http://www.fxparlant.net
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
Dear All,
I am in the process of trying to build a wiki starting from some legacy word documents with heavy amounts of mathematical content. I have succesfully exported to xhtml with equations represented in mathml (using MathType), but am now stuck with converting the xhtml to wiki markup. Suggestions, anyone?
Many thanks, Jonathan.
FxParlant wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
My experience: if your wiki is private, and if you have the administrators rights on it, simply enable html on your wiki. Thus you don't have to bother for old documents which will be interpreted as html, and new writers can still use html or wiki markup for new documents... this solution has many security flaws (among other inconvenients, but it applies perfectly to my use)
Thanks for that advice, Francois. I'll give that a try. I wonder though if mediawiki can parse the mathml?
Cheers, Jonathan
Hi again,
As I'm not an expert on mathml, you should maybe send another post with an explicit title on mahtml to catch the relevants geeks out there :-)
But I can tell you that wiki can send part of a page (delimited by tags) to an extension or an engine. Thus, for mathml, what is needed is a mathml engine on your server.
See how formulas are rendered on mediawiki by the use of Tex mathml or whatever (I repeat, I don't know any of this) in mediawiki user guide: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula
Hope this helps
François
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
FxParlant wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
My experience: if your wiki is private, and if you have the administrators rights on it, simply enable html on your wiki. Thus you don't have to bother for old documents which will be interpreted as html, and new writers can still use html or wiki markup for new documents... this solution has many security flaws (among other inconvenients, but it applies perfectly to my use)
Thanks for that advice, Francois. I'll give that a try. I wonder though if mediawiki can parse the mathml?
Cheers, Jonathan
Jonathan Underwood j.underwood@open.ac.uk writes:
I am in the process of trying to build a wiki starting from some legacy word documents with heavy amounts of mathematical content. I have succesfully exported to xhtml with equations represented in mathml (using MathType), but am now stuck with converting the xhtml to wiki markup. Suggestions, anyone?
Some guy wrote a VB script to translate word to wiki [1]. You may give it a try.
Cheers
[1] http://infpro.com/downloads/downloads/wordmedia.htm
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