hand-tuning only once
May. 27th, 2008 03:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslI want a way of generating LaTeX from wikitext. This will probably not work 100% anytime soon, so I expect to need to hand-tune the output of the conversion.
But if I do things the naive way, whenever I make a minor change to the wikitext (we don't want to edit the generated LaTeX, because that would be a version control nightmare), I'll need to do the hand-tuning again, EVERY TIME.
Possible solutions:
* use the diff(history) provided by the wiki to make the analogous change to the LaTeX file, without touching the parts that were hand-tuned.
* programming by demonstration?
But if I do things the naive way, whenever I make a minor change to the wikitext (we don't want to edit the generated LaTeX, because that would be a version control nightmare), I'll need to do the hand-tuning again, EVERY TIME.
Possible solutions:
* use the diff(history) provided by the wiki to make the analogous change to the LaTeX file, without touching the parts that were hand-tuned.
* programming by demonstration?