MEDIAWIKI2LATEX

NAME

MediaWiki to LaTeX - compile MediaWiki pages via LaTeX to PDF

SYNOPSIS

mediawiki2latex [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.

-b, --epub

Output epub file. Only works if packages latex2rtf and calibre are installed additionally.

-d, --odt

Output odt file. Open Document Text (for wordprocessors). Only works if packages latex2rtf and libreoffice are installed additionally.

-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.

-k, --bookmode

Use book-namespace mode for expansion. That means: Follow all links but not recursively.

-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.

-?, -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 <dirk.hunniger@googlemail.com>. Other contributors are listed in the AUTHORS file.

This man page was written by Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>.