Why not set it up on Labs? :)

On 17 November 2013 20:45, Dirk Hünniger dirk.hunniger@googlemail.comwrote:

Hello, I also put up a web version of the mediawiki to latex converter.

http://mediawiki2latex.mooo.com/

The machine it is running on is really slow (like an intel atom)

Yours Dirk

On 12.11.2013 13:09, Fred Bauder wrote:

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I have a log of what happens on when the commands:

sudo apt-get install mediawiki2latex

mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf

are entered on the command line of ubuntu (13.10) Better than TV...

Happy to send it to anyone.

Fred

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To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy.

Thanks Santhosh

Hi Scott, I saw you started to work on an LaTeX Export yourself. I needed more than 3 year for mine. So I want you to be aware that it might take you a long time to come up with something that really works. I also want to offer you to share all my experience with you if you decide to do it yourself, since it might significantly speed up your develpment process. Unfortunatly I am currently neither unimployed nor a student anymore and can not esaly get out of my current full time position at university. So I do not have much time actully help you. My project is actually also using xelatex. The problem is that it is using freeserif by default and you have to manully enable megafont to get full 16 Bit Unicode support. Still this does not solve the problem that some codepoints in unicode stand for more than one character and you have to take into account external information to guess the character to print. Yours Dirk

On 26.11.2013 16:01, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

The new PDF rendering pipeline does indeed use XeLaTeX. I haven't used it to typeset non-latin scripts since a summer I spent at SIL in 1996 (and that might have been Omega, not XeLaTeX), so if you wanted to pitch in and help out I'd greatly appreciate it. To start with, short example LaTeX articles typeset in your script would probably help me ensure I've got all the prologue bits and packages right. --scott

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com wrote:

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To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy.

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com wrote:

To support complex scriptshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout we need to use a tex system that can support Unicode and complex script rendering system. Xetex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX works very well with these scripts.I tried the MediaWiki to Latex converter with Malayalam script, and the result is buggy.

Could you take a look at the attached PDF, generated from https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%... with our not-yet-deployed new software? Any Malayam-specific feedback you could provide would be very useful. --scott

ps. the images in the pdf are deliberately very low resolution to keep the overall size of the PDF small.

On 12/11/2013 01:36 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

Could you take a look at the attached PDF, generated from https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B3%... with our not-yet-deployed new software? Any Malayam-specific feedback you could provide would be very useful.

The output is very good. Did not notice any issues. The hyphenation in some languages should use non-visible hyphen characters. XeTeX allows customizing it(hyphenchar). In the specific case of Malayalam, people normally use U+200C for causing line break without visible hyphen.

Thanks Santhosh