[Mediawiki-l] math and PDF

[lee worden]

I have another question about Extension:Collection.  I'm gathering from 
the documentation there that it isn't able to get the output of other 
extensions into the pdf - if I use an extension with custom tags that adds 
HTML output to the wiki page, Collection wouldn't be able to include a 
version of that output in the PDF product.  Is that right?

Best,
Lee Worden
McMaster University

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Volker Haas wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] math and PDF
> 
> Hi
>
> Günter Gratzer wrote:
>> Is there any other extension to export wiki pages with mathematical formulas to PDF?
>>
> The Collection extension [1] supports rendering math formulas.
> Actually the Collection extension (with the back-end software
> mwlib/mwlib.rl [2]) is what's behind the "Download as PDF" button.
>> Also "Download as PDF" on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula does not work.
>>
>>
> I just checked that page and exporting to PDF works. The problem you
> probably encountered was that rendering pages with lots of formulas
> takes some time. Now the page (and the formulas) are cached and the
> result should show up pretty much instantaneously (until somebody
> changes the page).
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
> [2] http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki
>
>