Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It doesn't sound like a very complicated import. If can supply a list of URLs for the target wiki pages, you could probably have someone write you an import utility for free by posting your request on this forum: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=71.0 The Coding Snacks page is

Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
Confluence 4's import path is supposed to be MS Word, but there are several bugs that make it unusable: cross-references are broken, numbers are converted to plain text instead of ordered lists, and each node of the TOC is sorted alphabetically. I think Atlassian is in a catch-22 as regards the

Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
If it were that simple, someone would have done it already. The hundreds or thousands of target URLs need to be defined during import based on topic names and used when converting the internal cross-references.

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It doesn't sound like a very complicated import. If can supply a list of URLs for the target wiki pages, you could probably have someone write you an import utility for free by posting your request on this forum: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=71.0 The Coding Snacks page is

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
If it were that simple, someone would have done it already. The hundreds or thousands of target URLs need to be defined during import based on topic names and used when converting the internal cross-references.

Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:03:46 -0700, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: [snipped for brevity] One big challenge was converting thousands of pages of legacy docs. I got MIF2Go working on a page-by-page basis for both. I got stuck because I couldn't find a documented bulk import utility

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:03:46 -0700, Robert Lauriston wrote: [snipped for brevity] >One big challenge was converting thousands of pages of legacy docs. I >got MIF2Go working on a page-by-page basis for both. I got stuck >because I couldn't find a documented bulk import utility that worked.

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-23 Thread Robert Lauriston
Confluence 4's import path is supposed to be MS Word, but there are several bugs that make it unusable: cross-references are broken, numbers are converted to plain text instead of ordered lists, and each node of the TOC is sorted alphabetically. I think Atlassian is in a catch-22 as regards the

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
Around a year ago I spent 4-5 months evaluating wikis with the goal of migrating from FrameMaker. Confluence 4 and MindTouch were by far the most practical, since they're based on XHTML rather than wiki markup. One big challenge was converting thousands of pages of legacy docs. I got MIF2Go

RE: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
, March 22, 2013 11:04 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki Around a year ago I spent 4-5 months evaluating wikis with the goal of migrating from FrameMaker. Confluence 4 and MindTouch were by far the most

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
Around a year ago I spent 4-5 months evaluating wikis with the goal of migrating from FrameMaker. Confluence 4 and MindTouch were by far the most practical, since they're based on XHTML rather than wiki markup. One big challenge was converting thousands of pages of legacy docs. I got MIF2Go

migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
, March 22, 2013 11:04 AM To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki Around a year ago I spent 4-5 months evaluating wikis with the goal of migrating from FrameMaker. Confluence 4 and MindTouch were by far