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Widows and orphans rule

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212.185.85.78 (talkcontribs)

PDF export: Please include the widows and orphan rule.

TheDJ (talkcontribs)

As far as I know, that rule is included (as it is in normal print). However, the behaviour of widows and orphans only works WITHIN a single paragraph. As Wikipedia pages often have lots of paragraphs and headers on the page as well as many floating images and other elements, the behaviour you expect might not be possible to achieve for the renderer.

If you have specific examples that go wrong, you are welcome to upload and share them with us, for evaluation.

Dirk Hünniger (talkcontribs)

mediawiki2latex does respect the widows and orphan rule

125.253.56.145 (talkcontribs)

@Dirk Hünnigerthank you for this, but it appears that the mediawiki2latex demo site does not work. It does not produce the pdf when the process is finished

Dirk Hünniger (talkcontribs)

Hi, I do get a result for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphism The problem is likely that the page you are trying to process is too large. The server cancels every process after one hour. This is done to allow others to use the server too. The solution is to install the current version Ubuntu (possibly in a virtual machine) and run the mediawiki2latex command line application available for the Ubuntu package repository via apt-get install mediawiki2latex. If you want to process a large page you might need a lot of ram, possibly something like 32 GByte, but you will see by yourself. Yours Dirk

125.253.56.237 (talkcontribs)
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Dirk Hünniger (talkcontribs)

Hi, I also get a result for the page you mentioned. It took about 10 minutes. So you should just have to wait some time. Yours Dirk

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