Extension:Wiki2LaTeX/News

Wiki2LaTeX 0.8 released
I am proud to announce a new Wiki2LaTeX-release: v.0.8. While there are no big new features you will find it being the most stable release ever. It should be far easier to install this extension and get the PDF-Export-Feature to work than before. You can see all the changes here.

The biggest change is the introduction of contributions, which reside in a contrib directory. They can be included and replace older methods of getting math-tags, Parserfunctions and such to work. Read more about it on the documentation page.

--HG 14:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Extension is still alive
In the last few months I have been too busy with some university stuff so I wasn't able to put much time into developing this extension. But as I use my extension on a daily basis I did find some bugs and fixed them so there will be a bugfix-release soon. This version will not yet be tested with Mediawiki 1.12, which introduced big changes to the code of the parser.

In other news the Wikimedia Foundation stated that they have started a project which aims to bring pdf-export to all the Mediawikis by introducing an extension called Collections. The few tests I made some weeks ago looked promising and my guess is, that it will be a good and simple way for any user to get a pdf-version of an article. Still Wiki2LaTeX offers some ways of customizing the output (f.e. templates) and it does offer any possibility which LaTeX itself offers. So I will not abandon Wiki2LaTeX in favor to Collections.

Last but not least I want to state some future ideas and plans:
 * Add support for some syntax-features like interwiki links.
 * Revisit the parsing order and fix remaining problems regarding template expansion.
 * Address some security issues; especially temporary files.
 * Remove the pdf-archive and put it into an own extension.
 * Remove GeSHi as it was interesting to look at the code this way when W2L did not work completely reliable. This has changed now so syntax-Highlighting doesn't seem to be necessary anymore (I haven't used it in months).
 * Simplify the UI.

Any suggestions and comments on these plans are welcome.

--HG 15:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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