Deplate – create latex, docbook, html documents or web-pages from wiki-like markup

1 What Is It About?

deplate …

is the companion converter for the Vim viki plugin, a personal wiki for vim
reads wiki-like markup (currently supported: viki, rdoc)
writes LaTeX, HTML, DocBook documents
- creates readable and (mostly) well-formed output
converts embedded LaTeX formulas
converts embedded on-the-fly generated content like tables/graphics via R, concept maps via dot …

Non-intrusive markup for basic elements:

… and for simple text formatting:

Emphasis __emphasized__ | Typewriter

''typewriter'' |
“regions” and “macros” for
- highlighted embedded code
- abstracts, quotations, footnotes …
Source for this presentation

#Code id=Foo syntax=ruby <<---
class Foo
    # Return two times x
    def bar(x)
        x * 2
    end
end
---

class Foo
    # Return two times x
    def bar(x)
        x * 2
    end
end

Some formula: {ltx: $\sum_{i=n}^{n} x_{i}$}
or simply: $\lambda_1 v_1 + \lambda_2 v_2 + ... + \lambda_n v_n$.

Some formula: $sum_{i=n}^{n} x_{i}$ or simply: $lambda_1 v_1 + lambda_2 v_2 + ... + lambda_n v_n$ .

#Inlatex <<---
$det A = \sum\limits_{\pi \in S_n} sgn(\pi) a_{\pi(1)1} ... a_{\pi(n)n}$
---

deplate creates
- single page documents
- chunked multi-pages documents (small websites)
  - these can also be used for web-based presentations
embedded LaTeX formulas are
- converted to images
- converted to MathML for XHTML output by means of Hiraku Kuroda’s mathml library

deplate supports
- standard document classes
- koma classes
- formatting plays via the dramatist class (see play input filter )
The output is meant to be readable