* Apply a patch from Carl Worth adding support for using globs in link()

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / latex.mdwn

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@@ -2,8 +2,32 @@ How about a plugin adding a
 [[preprocessor_directive|preprocessordirective]] to render some given LaTeX
 and include it in the page?  This could either render the LaTeX as a PNG via
 [[debpkg dvipng]] and include the resulting image in the page, or perhaps
 [[preprocessor_directive|preprocessordirective]] to render some given LaTeX
 and include it in the page?  This could either render the LaTeX as a PNG via
 [[debpkg dvipng]] and include the resulting image in the page, or perhaps

-render via [HeVeA](http://pauillac.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/index.html) or
+render via [HeVeA](http://pauillac.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/index.html),
+[TeX2page](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/~dorai/tex2page/tex2page-doc.html), or

 similar. Useful for mathematics, as well as for stuff like the LaTeX version
 of the ikiwiki [[/logo]].
 
 similar. Useful for mathematics, as well as for stuff like the LaTeX version
 of the ikiwiki [[/logo]].
 

+----
+
+ikiwiki could also support LaTeX as a document type, again rendering to HTML.
+
+----
+
+Conversely, how about adding a plugin to support exporting to LaTeX?
+
+>> I did some tests with using Markdown and a customized HTML::Latex and html2latex
+>> and it appears it will work for me now. (I hope to use ikiwiki for many
+>> to collaborate on a printed book that will be generated at least once per day in PDF format.)
+>>
+>> --JeremyReed
+
+>>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/).  It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]]
+
+----
+
+[here](http://ng.l4x.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=ikiwiki.git/.git;a=blob;f=IkiWiki/Plugin/latex.pm) is a first stab at
+a latex plugin. Examples [here](http://ng.l4x.org/latex/). Currently without image support for hevea. And the latex2html
+output has the wrong charset and no command line switch to change that. Dreamland.
+
+

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