Dear Erik,
Dear list,

Am 22.04.22 um 21:35 Uhr schrieb Erik Moeller:
> That specific book is a good example of the problems that we've always
> had with PDF generation by way of LaTeX, such as complex tables. Also
> note the intermittent appearance of unsupported tags in the output.
>
> As far as I know, the renderer they use is still partially
> proprietary. I'm not sure if it would still be seen as valuable to
> open source fully, given that LaTeX is indeed probably a technical
> dead-end for these kinds of conversions, and given that the codebase
> is very old.


You might like to know that there is a more recent free
MediaWiki-to-LaTeX project that is actively maintained by Dirk Hünninger
and can be tried out on WMF Labs:

https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/

I understand that Dirk produced some PDF versions for German Wikibooks,
but I do not know whether he is still contributing.

I put Dirk in CC to let him know we speak of matters LaTeX. Maybe he
would like to join the conversation.

Best regards,
Jürgen.
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