On 7/4/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning(a)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