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@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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2007/3/2, Dhruba Bandopadhyay dhruba.bandopadhyay@hotmail.com:
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.
I see. I think it would be possible to use a skin to format the wiki contents in HTML and then have a Word macro to format it according to your rules.
Using Microsoft Sharepoint might be a more productive solution, though.
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