Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:14:51PM +0100, Buttay cyril wrote:
I'm currently working on a (python) wiki to pdf converter, based on wiki2pdf, which is no longer actively maintained.
My hobby horse is "Get The Glue Right", which leans me to ask:
would it not be {easier,more useful} to direct effort towards wikitext2docbook? Doesn't docbook already know how to get to PDF?
Well, I picked one of the existing project (wiki2pdf) for the following reasons: 1- it uses python, which is one of the only languages I am nearly comfortable with (I'm not a programmer) 2- the objective for me is to create a wikibook-to-Latex converter. I plan to keep this piece of code client-side, because I know that even a really good parser will need some tweaking of the LaTeX source to produce a good pdf on something as long as a wikibook. Among the features of the program is the automatic download of images and wiki pages, something I can easily do with python 3- the list of alternative parsers ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers ) does not mention wikitext2docbook, and says that flexbisonparse is "Intended as an eventual replacement to the parsing code inside MediaWiki itself", which is rather promising!
In an other hand, the tests I made with docbook were not very good from a typographic point of view (I think the docbook to pdf conversion uses LaTeX, but the stylesheets are oriented towards automation rather than quality). I will have a look at wikitext2docbook, though.
Regards
Cyril
/derail
Cheers, -- jra