I have created an improved version of Hagindaz's Wiki2LaTeX (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Hagindaz/Wiki2LaTeX) tool, which helps creating PDF versions of books. It can download the whole book with images and automatically generate LaTeX source code, which can be directly translated into a PDF file. Still, some knowledge of LaTeX is required, but the tool can greatly reduce time of preparing PDF version of a textbook.
Currently it supports output in two languages (Polish and English), but adding support for new ones is quite easy.
The description of the program can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Derbeth/javaLatex. Example output is here: http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grafika:C.pdf.
2008/2/29 Derbeth derbeth@wp.pl:
I have created an improved version of Hagindaz's Wiki2LaTeX (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Hagindaz/Wiki2LaTeX) tool, which helps creating PDF versions of books. It can download the whole book with images and automatically generate LaTeX source code, which can be directly translated into a PDF file. Still, some knowledge of LaTeX is required, but the tool can greatly reduce time of preparing PDF version of a textbook.
Currently it supports output in two languages (Polish and English), but adding support for new ones is quite easy.
The description of the program can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Derbeth/javaLatex. Example output is here: http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grafika:C.pdf.
Just curious: When using images, does it * get the image authors as well? * list individual image licenses somewhere?
Magnus
Dnia Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:32:16 +0100, Magnus Manske napisał(a):
Just curious: When using images, does it
- get the image authors as well?
- list individual image licenses somewhere?
No, you have to do it on hand. Perhaps I will think about adding such functionality later, but it is quite complicated due to number of different license templates, fact that the uploader of the image can be someone different from the author and so on. There is no such thing as machine-readable image description on Wikimedia projects. Frankly, I think the only thing a program can do is to provide a list of used graphics, so that it would be faster for human to add required information.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Derbeth derbeth@wp.pl wrote:
No, you have to do it on hand. Perhaps I will think about adding such functionality later, but it is quite complicated due to number of different license templates, fact that the uploader of the image can be someone different from the author and so on. There is no such thing as machine-readable image description on Wikimedia projects. Frankly, I think the only thing a program can do is to provide a list of used graphics, so that it would be faster for human to add required information.
It may be easier to create a table at the end that lists all the images, and provides a URL to the description page. Include a note that says "These images may be released under a separate license. See the individual description pages for details". It's not perfect, but it's a start.
--Andrew Whitworth
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On 29/02/2008, Derbeth wrote:
Dnia Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:32:16 +0100, Magnus Manske napisał(a):
Just curious: When using images, does it
- get the image authors as well?
- list individual image licenses somewhere?
No, you have to do it on hand. Perhaps I will think about adding such functionality later, but it is quite complicated due to number of different license templates, fact that the uploader of the image can be someone different from the author and so on. There is no such thing as machine-readable image description on Wikimedia projects. Frankly, I think the only thing a program can do is to provide a list of used graphics, so that it would be faster for human to add required information.
Could div tags in meta templates be used to indicate "author name", "date produced", &c. in media descriptions to make them machine-readable?
- -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill@gmail.com)
Dnia Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:56:06 +0100, Oldak Quill napisał(a):
Could div tags in meta templates be used to indicate "author name", "date produced", &c. in media descriptions to make them machine-readable?
Yes, but you cannot introduce it to all media on Commons and local wikis.
That's a pretty good-looking tool, and the output looks fantastic. Great job Derbeth!
I'll take some time to play with it later on, see what I can do with it.
--Andrew Whitworth
2008/2/29 Derbeth derbeth@wp.pl:
I have created an improved version of Hagindaz's Wiki2LaTeX (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Hagindaz/Wiki2LaTeX) tool, which helps creating PDF versions of books. It can download the whole book with images and automatically generate LaTeX source code, which can be directly translated into a PDF file. Still, some knowledge of LaTeX is required, but the tool can greatly reduce time of preparing PDF version of a textbook.
Currently it supports output in two languages (Polish and English), but adding support for new ones is quite easy.
The description of the program can be found at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Derbeth/javaLatex. Example output is here: http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grafika:C.pdf.
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