[Mediawiki-l] RfC: PDF and document management for MediaWiki

[Joshua Oreman]

On 1/4/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I have identified an organization which is willing to spend up to
> about EUR 10,000 on adding support for exporting MediaWiki pages as
> PDF files, and improving document management for documents consisting
> of multiple pages.

I once implemented something somewhat like this.  Personal project,
highly unpolished, not suitable for mainstream use - but it worked for
what I needed it to.

I did it by writing a wikitext -> LaTeX converter.

Now, my stuff didn't handle images or tables, and those are the bits
that are the hardest to convert, so this may be pointless.  However,
it might at least be worth looking into.  LaTeX does make very
nice-looking output with not a whole lot of fuss.

Just my two cents.

-- Josh