#369 process wikitext source files

[Lee Worden]

Some projects include wikitext source files, and some generate wikitext project files. It would sometimes be useful to have make rules to transform wikitext to pdf.

It would also be useful to have a transformation from wikitext to latex, so people could make notes on a wiki page and then upgrade them easily into latex documents as they grow into actual papers.

[Lee Worden]

Sigh, but that's the part that MediaWiki does! I'm trying to augment MediaWiki, not reimplement it!

[Lee Worden]

we had a conversation and email exchange about this today:

We could maybe do wikitext to latex conversion by

1. Use the "Collection" extension to convert the wikitext page to .odt:
   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
   then use Writer2LaTeX to convert .odt file to .tex:
   http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/

2. Use Collection extension to convert wikitext to DocBook XML, then use
   http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
   dblatex to convert DocBook to .tex

[Lee Worden]

Ticket moved from /p/workingwiki/feature-requests/1/