Thanks everyone, I decided to write my own, using reg-ex substitutions, done in Python. Its about 90% there - I will post it online somewhere when I am done. Kind Regards, Hugo Vincent.

On 06/16/2012 12:03 PM, Svip wrote: The source code is available here http://wb2pdf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wb2pdf/ The Binary is large because it contains everything necessery to compile the generated LaTeX code, which is basically a full installation of MikTeX. Yours Dirk Hünniger

On 06/16/2012 06:49 PM, Platonides wrote: I provide one download that is easy to use for any user of both Linux an Windows. Thus is obviously contains files unnecessary for each of the two operating systems. I have heard of dependencies and the .deb contains a lot of them, and they are downloaded when it is installed. I can produce a higher quality .deb file. It will still be 90MByte because I need a full Unicode font. To be precise I need twelve variants of it and thats the 90MByte. I essentially did the tmp trick in order to get around the work of researching where to install each file and to properly fix the path names in the code and to test that. So for now you can run the software, you can test every feature you want, and if you or somebody else decided s/he wants to use it, I will make a .deb file that fits yours needs. This will probably take two weeks, with most of the time being spent on chose proper directories. Yours Dirk

The point is that the change of the font has to happen inside a run of LaTeX compiler. I tried that and it sometimes works but often the compiler does not produce any output if I do that. So the best is to give the compiler one font for the whole document and let run with that. I merged them because changing the font in LaTeX does not always work, especially inside headings which become part of the table of contents. The main part of the program is written in the wonderful and easy to learn purely functional programming language Haskell. Some minor parts are written in Python3, these two parts need to communicate. Currently pa and geturl are binaries created by the Haskell Compiler ghc. pa is essitially a compiler for the mediawiki language, it parses to a tree and writes it down as LaTeX. The problem with the mediawiki language is that it allows improper bracketing of tags and thus is not context free and thus there is no BNF for it and thus all normal parsers are ruled out and thus you need to use a more obscure technology like monadic parser combinators in Haskell. But since you seem to have a good idea where to put which file, you maybe could give me some hints on that, since that would make my work much easier. I will remember this for future versions of the deb file. Essentially I only need the stuff in the bin directory. The stuff in the build directory is just created by the ghc build tools. Yours Dirk

On 16/06/12 10:51, Dirk Hünniger wrote: How does it compare with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wiki2LaTeX ? Also, are you aware you're replying to an 8 years old thread?