Hi Frank,

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 09:19:55PM +0100, Frank wrote:

Unfortunately, there are pretty many "dialects" of markdown.
`pandoc` has an option for MediaWiki, though. (I have only used
`pandoc` to convert very simple documents, so I cannot judge the
quality, but it seems to me that `pandoc` is recommended by many people)

(It would have been nice to send us the right option.)

Thanks, with the right option for MediaWiki, I now manage to generate
a reasonably good-looking conversion to LaTeX. The Html converter
ignores all mathematical formulas. Both converters ignore footnotes,
which is disappointing if we want to use it for reading Wikipedia pages.

By the way, conversion from LaTeX to html seems to be also painful.
tex4ht breaks quite often, although I usually use it to convert math
papers to ebooks to push on Kindles to read - when it works, it is
okay. At least theoretically, texmacs does better - it has a much
more regular syntax than LaTeX.

Yes, in my modest opinion the best converter from LaTeX to Html is ...
TeXmacs ;^)

The Html + MathML generated by TeXmacs is also quite good;
for about 10 years, this was not supported by browsers,
so I had to re-import the MathML into TeXmacs for checking.
But recent versions of Firefox seem to support MathML.

Best wishes, --Joris