On 7/4/06, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
Essentially, this is an issue where there are people with editing/processing skills that are not developers, and part of the gulf that seperates the Wikimedia contributor/editors from the MediaWiki developers. Certainly an "automated" process would be desireable, but at the moment we are doing as best as we can with the tools currently available. Making a Wiki-syntax to PDF converter would be a non-trivial task that could be a whole major software project unto itself.
I was thinking more like a wiki-syntax to LaTeX converter then the LaTeX could be edited collaboratively then converted to PDF. But I didn't realize the current PDF had been generated with Open Office. swx certainly doesn't lend itself to collaboration through the web in the way I was thinking about.
As for the GFDL, I suppose PDF itself could be considered a "transparent" format.
Anthony