NAME¶
MediaWiki to LaTeX - compile MediaWiki pages via LaTeX to PDF
SYNOPSIS¶
[
OPTION]
-o
FILE -u
URL
DESCRIPTION¶
MediaWiki to LaTeX will fetch MediaWiki pages from a URL. It will fetch all its
content recursively, i.e. subpages and pictures. Then the source code is
converted to LaTeX, using the user template
MAP if specified, or a
default template otherwise. The LaTeX output is stored in
LATEXTREE if
provided. Finally a PDF if generated from the LaTeX source code if an
appropriate LaTeX compiler is found. Note that it will automatically run
several times to make sure all references are resolved. All steps can be
controlled with command-line options.
OPTIONS¶
- -c, --copy=LATEXTREE
- Write all generated LaTeX files to the specified folder.
- -g, --vector
- Keep vector graphics in vector form.
- -h, --html
- Use mediaWiki generated HTML as input (default).
- -z, --zip
- Output LaTeX Source Archive.
- -i, --internal
- Use internal template definitions.
- -x, --hex=CONFIG
- Take configuration data from hex encoded string given on the command line.
This is only needed to avoid malicious shell injecion via the web form of
the server
- -m, --mediawiki
- Use mediaWiki to expand the templates.
- -o, --output=FILE
- Specify the PDF output file.
- -p, --paper=SIZE
- Set the paper size. Possible values are A4, A5, B5,
letter, legal, executive.
- -r, --resolution=DPI
- Set the maximum image reolution in dot-per-inch. The argument should be an
integer.
- -s, --server=PORT
- Run as server. Listen on PORT
- -t, --templates=MAP
- Specify the user template map file. Usually called templates.user.
- -l, --headers=EADERSPATH
- The the path to the LaTeX headers, which should be used. May be omitted.
Useful in combination -t.
- -u, --url=URL
- The input URI. It should point to a MediaWiki page.
- -h, -?, -v, --version, --help
- Show help options together with version number.
TEMPLATES¶
MediaWiki features a powerful template system which will control the appearance
of specific parts in the text. This system can be used to our advantage to
further control the appearance of the resulting PDF. You can tell MediaWiki to
LaTeX to use the host site template result directly in the PDF, or you can use
a custom template of yours. See the
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/mediawiki2latex/latex for a template example.
LATEX TREE¶
All the downloaded files are kept into memory, so there will not be any
MediaWiki files remaining on disk after the process. However, the generated
LaTeX files -- the `LaTeX tree' -- need to be written on disk in order to
produce the PDF. These files are written to
/tmp/MediaWiki$$ by
default. This folder will be removed when the program exits.
However you may want to keep the generated LaTeX tree on disk for LaTeX
customiwation and to fasten future builds. If you use the
-c option to
set the LaTeX tree folder, the program will not remove it on exit so you can
continue to use it.
- The LaTeX tree is made of three folders:
- header
- A folder containing the LaTeX options, the special pages, the package
loading, etc.
- images
- All the original picture files used in the article.
- main
- The complete LaTeX version of the source document is stored in
main.tex.
To compile the PDF file yourself, simply run `xelatex' on the
main.tex
file. For instance:
-
xelatex LaTeX-tree/main/main.tex
You may need to run it several times to make sure all references are resolved.
AUTHORS¶
MediaWiki to LaTeX was mainly developed by Dirk Hünniger
<hunniger@cip.physik.uni-bonn.de>. Other contributors are listed in the
AUTHORS file.
This man page was written by Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>.