Re: [documentation-dev] Re: [authors] ODT or wiki as source for our books? (long)

2007-07-31 Thread KAMI
Frank Peters írta: OOoAuthors wrote: Hi Frank @all, if there will be a way to export the wiki content with styles to odf and the result is in the same quality like the current documents it will be the best way, cause in this case any person could contribute without problem like wrong style e

Re: [documentation-dev] Source for OOoAuthors books (update)

2007-07-31 Thread marbux
On 7/31/07, Frank Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would also be a good advertisment including ODF and OOo in a larger > authoring environment showing the beauty and potential of working > with ODF-XML in a automated, scripted fashion. > > You really should take a close look at Daisy. Docum

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Alan
Excellent discussion in the last 2 emails! Beautiful! We may have to experiment some to come up with the best overall solution. Also we will want to consider such aspects as which projects are under the most active development and have the greatest potential for long-term growth. The most a

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Jim Harris
Wow! And, for what very little it's worth, I agree with the goals and most of the methods of meeting them. The only reason I didn't support this suggestion more strongly earlier is that I seem to recall that similar suggestions had been investigated by the "responsible parties" and rejected.

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread marbux
On 7/31/07, Frank Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we want to move to the wiki as the main collaborative > platform we need mediawiki->ODF and mediawiki->PDF conversion > processes. I can't say the required extension to Mediawiki doesn't exist, but I went through all of the Media Wiki ext

[documentation-dev] Re: [authors] ODT or wiki as source for our books? (long)

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Peters
OOoAuthors wrote: > Hi Frank @all, > > if there will be a way to export the wiki content with styles to odf and > the result is in the same quality like the current documents it will be > the best way, cause in this > case any person could contribute without problem like wrong style etc. > > Perh

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Alan
Hi Mike, Check these out Best bet http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/wiki2xml/ But, under export pages in this link. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes Then there is a section called HTML Tidy in this page??? http://swik.net/HTML+convert

Re: [documentation-dev] Source for OOoAuthors books (update)

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Peters
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Earlier, Frank asked whether the source for the OOoAuthors books would > be the wiki in future. This was in the context of perhaps combining > those books with the "official" User Guide on the wiki. > > I asked on the OOoAuthors list for people's preferences on keeping t

[documentation-dev] Source for OOoAuthors books (update)

2007-07-31 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Earlier, Frank asked whether the source for the OOoAuthors books would be the wiki in future. This was in the context of perhaps combining those books with the "official" User Guide on the wiki. I asked on the OOoAuthors list for people's preferences on keeping the source as ODT or wiki. So fa

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Frank Peters wrote: Inside Sun we're using a direct system (SGML->PDF) that works really well. I would like to give it a chance to see what we can come up with. I'd be delighted if it works. To be honest, many of the PDFs created "by hand" are nor very compelling either. I agree. If people

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Peters
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Frank Peters wrote: >> Frank Peters wrote: >>> Issues: >>> >>> - Mediawiki does not support image export (or does it?) >>> - The process should be controlled by a script that >>> accesses the wiki, fetches the pages, converts them >>> and creates PDF (did anyone say "

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Frank Peters wrote: Frank Peters wrote: Issues: - Mediawiki does not support image export (or does it?) - The process should be controlled by a script that accesses the wiki, fetches the pages, converts them and creates PDF (did anyone say "Perl"? ;-) Anything else? We'd need a solid tem

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread marbux
On 7/31/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, marbux! That extension sounds like a good possibility, if > is easy for me to use and gives acceptable output. If we have the > wiki as source, my main need will be to convert from wiki to ODT. I think you can test it online at

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Peters
Frank Peters wrote: > Issues: > > - Mediawiki does not support image export (or does it?) > - The process should be controlled by a script that > accesses the wiki, fetches the pages, converts them > and creates PDF (did anyone say "Perl"? ;-) > > Anything else? We'd need a solid template fo

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Peters
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Thanks, marbux! That extension sounds like a good possibility, if is > easy for me to use and gives acceptable output. If we have the wiki as > source, my main need will be to convert from wiki to ODT. If we want to move to the wiki as the main collaborative platform we

Re: [documentation-dev] User guide

2007-07-31 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Thanks, marbux! That extension sounds like a good possibility, if is easy for me to use and gives acceptable output. If we have the wiki as source, my main need will be to convert from wiki to ODT. --Jean marbux wrote: I haven't tried it, but there is a Mediawiki extension for the purpose. <