> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > >>On Friday 26 September 2003 06:09, Austin wrote: > >> > >>>markup? Also, the document is then not easily published > >>>elsewhere. Is there an easy way to convert wiki markup to > >>>pure HTML, or PDF, or some other publishing format? > >> > >>If you're using Twiki, they have a "publishing plugin" that > >>converts an entire wiki to interlinked static HTML files. It > >>looks better and needs a lot less work and server load than > >>trying something with wget. I have it set up on the wiki for > >>Gambas to generate once a day (since the Gambas wiki has kinda > >>gotten a little complicated to do it on demand.) See the front > >>page of http://www.binara.com/gambas-wiki/ for a link to the > >>static version, and www.twiki.org (uh, somewhere within it... > >>the whole thing's a wiki) for the plugin. > > Speaking of gambas, why isn't it in contrib yet? (I had meant to try and > work on this, but ran out of time ...). > > >> > >>I haven't figured out a way to convert to PDF *usefully*, but the > >>quick and dirty method would be to take the static files > >>generated by the above method and oowriter --print them to a pdf > >>file. I don't think that would look very good though. > > htmldoc may be better for this specific case. > > >> > >>Despite this shortcoming, I think wikis are the way to go for > >>community based documentation as long as someone sets up a > >>document hierarchy when the wiki's put in place (in Gambas' > >>case, I converted some documentation in a SXW file and wrote a > >>program to pull class documentation out of the IDE, but people > >>are free to add stuff outside those initial structures as well.) > > > > > > i think i read smth about a wiki that supports docbook xml, > > (but i can not find the mail right now, > > and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ml server gives error on searching :( )
think it was this : http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/ but having 2 sorts of wiki ? > There are two perl tools, wt2db and db2omf that could theoretically be > useful, but they don't seem to generate anything useful from the twiki > stuff I tried. > > http://tldp.org/wt2db/ > http://tldp.org/db2omf/ > > BTW, the issue isn't only generating documentation, but also ensuring > that it is easy to access (and I mean easier to access than the HTML > HOWTOs etc). That's where db2omf would come in, and should allow > searching and display with yelp and khelpcenter. > > > > & from docbook xml you can really easy create pdf, html, .... > > for dynamic conversation apache + cocoon is a good solution i think > > (at least for smaller documents, with my ~100page howto is a bit of > pain) > > see > > The other issue is maybe conglomerate is about ready for use for > large-scale editing of docbook? It would just need use to have some > versioning system (which the wiki currently provides). isn't versioning supported by all wiki's ? svetljo -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++
