LaTeX

From LaTeX Project website: LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.

• http://www.latex-project.org/ - Official LaTeX project site
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX - LaTeX on Wikipedia

LaTeX and TWiki

• LaTeX to TWiki
  • tool to convert LaTeX to TWiki markup language
    • LatexModePlugin with the Parse.pm file (currently in SVN) See IncludeExistingLatexDocsInTWiki for more.
  • tools to display LaTeX on TWiki
    • MathModePlugin (equations to images)
    • LatexModePlugin (any markup to images)
    • LaTeXToMathMLPlugin (equations to MathML)
• TWiki to LaTeX (or any TeX)
  • tool to convert TWiki markup language to LaTeX
    • direct:
      • twiki2pdf converts twiki to LaTeX, and thence to PDF: http://hepwww.ph.qmul.ac.uk/twiki2pdf/.
        capable of converting whole webs to book form
        (Requires Python, epstopdf, giftopnm, pnmtopng)
    • indirect: TWiki produces HTML; various HTML to LaTeX tools exist
      • GenPDFLatexAddOn
        converts single topics to a single .tex file.
        (uses a version of HTML::Latex from CPAN)

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny, AndyGlew, ScottHoge

Comments

Hm, why is there no TWikiToPdfAddOn topic yet? Would make sense, wouldn't it?

The demo WorkBook at the CERN site looks promising.

-- FranzJosefSilli - 17 Jan 2007

A few hours ago I sent an e-mail to the author of twiki2pdf suggesting exactly that.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Jan 2007

Hi - Yes I will do this

-- SteveLloyd - 17 Jan 2007

Great! Looking forward to it. -- Saw that the script is done in Python/PHP. Will this be translated to Perl for easier server integration?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 17 Jan 2007