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 <[email protected]> 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