mittimithai / wjlatexpreprint

WikiJournal pdf preprint automation using wikimedia2latex

Proposed wikimedia2latex-based script for automatically generated WikiJournal preprints

Install

Use the following to install wikimedia2latex on a linux machine (this won't work on Mac). NOTE: You generally need a machine with 8GB of RAM, you can get opaque problems like "process killed" with haskell otherwise.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
 cabal-install calibre cm-super-minimal djvulibre-bin \
 fonts-cmu fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-wqy-zenhei \
 ghc ghostscript git \
 imagemagick keyboard-configuration \
 latex-cjk-common latex2rtf \
 libghc-blaze-html-dev libghc-directory-tree-dev libghc-file-embed-dev \
 libghc-happstack-server-dev libghc-highlighting-kate-dev \
 libghc-http-conduit-dev libghc-http-dev libghc-hxt-dev \
 libghc-hxt-http-dev libghc-network-uri-dev libghc-pem-dev \
 libghc-regex-compat-dev libghc-regex-pcre-dev libghc-split-dev \
 libghc-strict-dev libghc-tagsoup-dev libghc-temporary-dev \
 libghc-url-dev libghc-utf8-string-dev libghc-utility-ht-dev \
 libghc-word8-dev libghc-x509-dev libghc-zip-archive-dev \
 libreoffice \
 librsvg2-bin lmodern make mediawiki2latex poppler-utils \
 texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-lang-all \
 texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-plain-generic \
 texlive-xetex \
 tzdata
git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/wb2pdf/git wb2pdf-git
make -C wb2pdf-git
make -C wb2pdf-git install

wikimedia2latex should be in your path now.

Usage Example

To generate the initial copy, make a directory that you will work in:

mkdir preprint
cd preprint

Assuming you are now in that directory, copy the wjheaders into that directory:

cp -r /path/to/wjlatexpreprint/wjheaders .

Then call mediawiki2latex:

mediawiki2latex --url=https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Alternative_androgens_pathways --headers=wjheaders --output=doc --copy=preprint_latex

Further edits to latex (figure placement etc.) can be made inside preprint_latex. Preprocess the latex output with:

cd preprint_latex/document/main
perl /path/to/wjlatexpreprint/preprocess_main.pl < main.tex > main_processed.tex

Edit the values in commands.tex, (look for "FILL THESE IN FOR EACH PREPRINT"). You can compile the latex by going inside main and the running latex, you need xelatex:

xelatex main_processed.tex

main_processed.pdf should be there now. The last things to do are to fix up the \includegraphics for figures and put them on separate pages if they are big, use this as a template:

\begin{minipage}{1.0\columnwidth}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=1.0\textwidth,height=6.5in,keepaspectratio]{../images/1.\SVGExtension}
\end{center}
\raggedright{}\myfigurewithcaption{A caption}
\end{minipage}

TODO

Font paths needs to be fixed to not be ubuntu specific, I think it will then be possible to compile the latex source on mac. Greek letters do not show up with the CMU font in section headings, this is a well known thing, but we need a policy (e.g., using serif font for section headings) to avoid this problem which can easily slip by.