La Tex Wiki

It is possible to transform Wiki source code to LaTex source rather than HTML. This approach allows you to create readable dumps of wikis to a report or book format. If you include all the pages in a wiki in the resulting LaTex file, you can convert WikiLinks into page references.

A normal WikiWikiWeb doesn't really provide the structure to allow full book dumps; some kind of sequencing and structuring is required, which a classic wiki doesn't really do.

One structuring method that has yielded some interesting results for me is to convert a wiki to a tree structure. Here's how;

It's a pretty good way to establish a sequential, tree-based structure, which works pretty well for bringing some useful structure to a site dump.


See also LatexWiki.


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