Many of you have heard about Word2MediaWikiPlus macro that easily converts Word documents + images into wiki & auto-uploads all the images. This is all great. However most of the time we keep the Word documents because of the A4-page-layout designs... used for printing customer/client manuals, etc. So am wondering, how does people keep Word & Wiki files in-synchronized? If changes are made to the wiki version by 3rd-party people, how does the owner of the original Word document sync up with the wiki changes? Especially when there are dozens or hundreds of these documents?
If it doesn't exist, I might write a Word2Wiki2WordSync.... _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.a...
If it doesn't exist, I might write a Word2Wiki2WordSync....
I for one would very much welcome a Wiki-to-Word (or even better: to OpenDocument) converter.
In fact, that has already been attempted: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php However, that doesn't really work perfectly AFAIK.
I've been told that converting MediaWiki markup to any other format is difficult at best; that's because there's no proper parser, which usually results in possible ambiguities and whatnot... (this description may be somewhat inaccurate, but it should do the trick here)
Still, being able to post-process wiki-created documents in a word processor (e.g. for publishing manuals) would be great!
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2007/3/1, Frederik Dohr fdg001@gmx.net:
If it doesn't exist, I might write a Word2Wiki2WordSync....
I think a starter would be some skin modification, like the "printable version". This would produce an HTML that could be opened in Word.
If preformatting in pages is desired, maybe a "print do PDF" would help. I'd guess there is plenty of software that can convert HTML to PDF.
I think a starter would be some skin modification, like the "printable version". This would produce an HTML that could be opened in Word.
Not a bad idea per se, but from my experience, Word (or any other word processor) is horrible at working with HTML - especially if you aim to re-integrate the resulting edits into the wiki.
If preformatting in pages is desired, maybe a "print do PDF" would help. I'd guess there is plenty of software that can convert HTML to PDF.
The problem with PDF is that it cannot (easily) be modified using a word processor, thus eliminating the possibility to post-process documents for page-based layouts.
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