LaTeX2Wiki

Status of This Project

I do have a hackish version that somehow works. But I want to take this rewrite further.

README

The following is the text from the README file in the distribution (or at least of an early version of it). Documentation and website updates will come later... well, maybe. Sorry for the moment. Use the source...

LaTeX2Wiki

The aim of this project is to create a wiki-version from a LaTeX project.

Why Wiki?

• The resulting code has simple formatting rules. There's no need to create complex syntax from the already complex LaTeX code.
• The resulting pages can be easily
  • edited so that an author of a LaTeX project can manually merge the changes back,
  • discussed so that you can get a discussion board for the contents of the chapter/section so that the author can continue writing the LaTeX project with the help of others or that the community can create a resource for hints, tips, FAQs and the like. The website of MySQL calls this version of their documentation: "HTML with user comments"
• The resulting pages can feature a history as well as full text search.

OK, why LaTeX then?

Well, yes there are other formats that were designed to be used for this job. Docbook and texinfo are only two of them. Unfortunately over the years I got a knack for some details that you can only do in LaTeX. At least as far as I know neither docbook nor texinfo can control the creation of ligatures. Other than that: writing LaTeX is fun, even more so if you use (X)Emacs with AUCTeX :-)

But this doesn't work

Yes, you're right. I had an ugly hack which worked. But releasing that code would not fit my standards of today (don't remind me that I once released w3make). And since the "API" only evolved while writing that hack I might as well start a complete rewrite from scratch. And that's where we're now...

Hey cool, I want to help

Now, that's a word! Just pick the source write me an email and tell me what you want to do. As long as the project keeps a low profile I will do all the code merging and releasing and stuff. If more people should come around I've no problem creating a public CVS, (preferably at berlios.de).

Thanks for listening... Stefan

Download

Download the latex2wiki tarball from http://www.skamphausen.de/downloads/software/