On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> I have written a tutorial on using bibtex with LyX and am looking for a
> place to post it. I just played with the wiki a bit, so I know how to
> edit a page. But how do I post a tutorial written in LyX? Do I have to
> re-type the page by hand?
I'm just new to wikis myself, but from what I've checked there are lots of
different types of wikis and some of them allow uploading files. This
actually includes the wiki-type in this case, but it doesn't seem to have
that function enabled.
If a wiki (by which I mean pages everyone can access and modify etc) seems
like a good idea, I think it would make sense to start one on the same
server as www.lyx.org (for reasons of backup if nothing else).
> Is there any way to upload a whole file? Say I converted my document to
> XML, and then converted it again to wiki format--can I upload this page
> to the wiki?
I thought about that as well when copied FAQ.lyx into the wiki, but
couldn't really find a good solution. I did some searches and tools like
that seem to be around, but decided it was easier to just copy and paste,
followed by some manual editing (surprisingly little actually).
I just used the mouse to mark chunks in the LyX window and pasted the
stuff into the wiki page, if your text isn't to long, this should work for
you too.
Anyway, if you just want a place to put the file, you can send it to me
and I'll keep it online for. Then you just write about it somewhere
on the wiki and give the link to it.
> Any suggestions or links would be greatly appreciated.
Well... if you like hacking scripts, I don't think it would be that
difficult to convert a .lyx-file to some wiki-style, but I'm just
guessing.
You could try sending a mail to the moinmoin developers list:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and see if they have any ideas about import/export to wiki. Otherwise,
I've found this page:
http://wireless.org.au/~tyson/tools/html2wiki/
with the promising name html2wiki, unfortunately it doesn't use exactly
the same syntax as the MoinMoin-wiki... sigh.. though I guess you could
probably use a search/replace on the output.
>
> PS I have been thinking for the past several weeks that LyX needs a
> central place for documentation. Maybe this wiki will do the trick?
>
Yeah, I agree with you. It would be nice to have somewhere to put simple
examples files etc.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderstr�m, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Design http://www.md.kth.se
