Our manuals for customers/clients are in Word and specially laid out (every odd page has a
wide left margin, small right margin.. and vice versa for the odd pages. the styles/fonts,
title page). Word2MediaWikiPlus only converts the basics (section headings, tables, lists,
images, colours). It's very hard to replicate the Word page-design layout in Wiki.
The reason why for the wiki is that documentation/manuals always get repeatly updated, by
multiple people. Plus the Word files were decentralised, Wiki is centralised.
From: "Fernando Correia"
<fernandoacorreia(a)gmail.com>> 2007/3/1, Jan Steinman
<Jan@bytesmiths.com>:> > I think the "single writer, multiple
readers" argument applies here,> > better known as, "The man with one
clock always knows what time it> > is; the man with two is never quite
sure..."> >> > I would strongly advise against maintaining writable
copies of a> > document in both Word and MediaWiki.> > As far as I could
understand, Dhruba wants to have read-only,> formatted-for-printing copies of the
documents.> > It seems he wants to use the wiki to create the documents and Word
to> deliver them. To me it seems like a sensible idea.> > That's why I think
HTML-export and PDF printing are viable solutions.> It is not necessary to be able to
change the offline documents and> them to upload them back.>
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