Yet another PDF export tool -- WikiPublisher

[Dimitris Glezos]

And here is our interesting-new-tool-of-the-week. :)

Trying to find something similar to `doc-book.sf.net` I stumbled upon
WikiPublisher [1]:

  [1]: http://www.wikipublisher.org

It's basically a plugin for 'pmwiki' that outputs a 'WikiBook XML' and a server
that converts this syntax to PDF. This allows to ouput a PDF from any wiki page
*and* create whole books based on inter-wiki links. You can try this by clicking
Typeset book at [2]:

  [2]: http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/index.php?n=Wikipublisher.UserGuide

The server is written in Perl and uses Latex to do the job. To use it, we'd need
to write a plugin for Moin to export to the Wikibook XML and run the Perl server.

Pros:

  * Backend is upstream and actively developed
  * Customizable PDF
  * Backend is in Perl (not PHP)

Cons:

  * Requires yet another export mechanism
  * Backend is in Perl (not Python)
  * DocBook out of the way -- how to do translations??

-d





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