Hi Sumana, Thanks for your note. You should publish this on the Wiki, I haven't seen any similar content anywhere!
Kind regards, Steve On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 3:51 PM Sumana Harihareswara <s...@changeset.nyc> wrote: > Here is a tip for anyone who is converting a complicated page on the > wiki from reStructuredText to MoinMoin wiki format, as I just did > https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingWG?action=diff&rev1=107&rev2=108 . > I'd been looking for an rST-to-MoinMoin converter but hadn't found one, > so I ended up using pandoc to get to an intermediate HTML state, then an > HTML-to-MoinMoin format. > > (I did this so I could use the `<<TableOfContents()>>` syntax to > automatically get a table of contents and easy anchor tag links to page > sections.) > > Cleaned up to remove backtracking, I: > > 1) copied the rST source text of the page into a local file, > packagingwg.rst > > 2) removed the `#format rst` line from the start (but copied the rest of > the hashmarked stuff from the start, like an #acl line, into a separate > scratch pad to retain for later) > > 3) turned the rST into HTML using pandoc: `pandoc -o packagingwg.html > packagingwg.rst` (this gave me a few errors, like "[WARNING] Reference > not found for 'fundable packaging improvements' at chunk line 1 column > 50", which meant it slightly misformatted a few internal wiki links > > 4) installed libhtml-wikiconverter-moinmoin-perl which is available as a > Debian package > > 5) converted from HTML to MoinMoin using `html2wiki --dialect=MoinMoin > packagingwg.html > packagingwg.wiki` > > 6) pasted the non-format-related hashmarked lines from my scratch pad > into the start of packagingwg.wiki > > 7) corrected the "Reference not found" errors by removing the `|` in any > hyperlinks that had turned into `[[|internal-pagename]` > > 8) replaced the contents of the page source with packagingwg.wiki > > Worked fine! > > Only on the revision AFTER that (so, knowing what format to use for the > renderer, I suppose) will MoinMoin properly preview a table of contents > for the page. So, heads-up. > > If there is an easier rst-to-MoinMoin path, or if there's a table of > contents syntax available that works for reStructuredText-formatted > pages on wiki.python.org, please let me know! I looked but I may have > missed something. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Changeset Consulting > https://changeset.nyc > _______________________________________________ > pydotorg-www mailing list > pydotorg-www@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www >
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