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.
You can produce PDFs from the wiki that are A4. I suppose you could even embed those PDFs in a Word document, if this is to fulfill the spirit of some organizational mandate.
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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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