6 Feb
2008
6 Feb
'08
5:02 p.m.
Re the Latex export, here's the plan: we're
currently working on a new
architectural version of the xwiki rendering mechanism. The new
mechanism
will be able to use tools like Maven Doxia which
already has a Latex
sink,
this means that we'll get the latex export for
free when we've
finished
that migration.
Of course if the community can help with the new xwiki rendering
mechanism
that'll speed up things.
Thanks
-Vincent
First I've seen of this Doxia project (unless I'm brainfarting), this
looks very exciting.
On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Jan Kodera wrote:
What I missed, was the transfer to LaTex. I had to do this
manually.
But i think it is better to keep the text in wiki
syntax. My point is,
you
can convert it to LaTex when you want. Why make it
incompatible to
rest of
xwiki?
I think what you are talking about is similar to Mediawiki's LaTex
support. They delimit TeX markup with "<math></math>" tags and it
works
quite nicely. User level documentation can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula
I believe most wiki engines that offer LaTeX support use a similar
interface.
On Feb 6, 2008 2:54 PM, Tim Chippington Derrick
<tim(a)chippingtonderrick.co.uk> wrote:
Sounds like a great project. We are a small (2 person)
company
working
in mathematical optimisation, and we would like to be
able to
use XWiki
for requirements capture, logging issues, developing
documentation and
similar. We often need to include equations and the like
in
our
documents. I love LaTeX, but nobody else I know really
gets
it, so we
end up using (yuk!) MS Word and (ugh!) Sharepoint. Would
love
to be able
to contribute to the project, but at present the
workload is
about 6+
days per week due to overlapping projects... so we have
*no*
time to
spare just now. Maybe later in the year I could help.
Tim
Sorry to hear that. I used Sharepoint for one day, and it was the
impetus to make me seek out and setup xwiki for our group. You do bring
up a good point though. I'd like to reinforce the fact that there are
those outside of academia who would like to see LaTeX support. XWiki is
very nice for engineering department wikis, and engineers tend to like
LaTeX.
-Paul D. Grodt