Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2024/January

mediawiki2latex
Hi, mediawiki2latex exports Wikibooks to Pdf, Epub, Odt and LaTeX. I suggest to add a new link to the tools in the in the section Tools. You may try this out yourself just now by copying User:Dirk_Hünniger/common.js to common.js in your user namespace or by using the link above. I did a very similar proposal three years ago, but some work has been done on mediawiki2latex, so I propose it again. Yours Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 12:46, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Tried it out on X86 Disassembly/Print Version - It failed, though that may be my fault? I'm excited by this - I think the convenience of having properly formatted electronic book export of Wikibooks has a lot of potential for making Wikibooks materials more easily accessible. Mbrickn (discuss • contribs) 21:41, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hey I can confirm that it does not work on GUI on the server. Still it works on the on the command line both locally and on the server. I wild guess would be a broken pipe, possibly I can fix it later. Unfortunately I cannot overwrite the file on wikimedia commons since I lack the necessary permission, still you can look at the version of the file I made 10 years ago. Its here File:X86 File:X86 Disassembly.pdf Yours--Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 08:29, 15 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hey, I fixed the problem by piping some outputs /dev/null, so likely it was a broken pipe. It worked for me on the server. You may have another try now. Thanks again for the bug report. Yours --Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 09:13, 15 January 2024 (UTC)


 * ping Mbrickn