maybe this could be solved by the implementation of a wysiwyg editor.
For example, tinyMCE automatically translates copy/pastes from Word into html.
Plyd
On 5/21/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/21/06, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Well, not really stupid, as we had people trying
to upload Word documents
but complicated.
Word is a propietary format. Data is quite binary and there's no public
specification. The format has more-or-less been reversed so prograsm as
OpenOffice or AbiWord can work with it, but there're still issues, specially
the embedded objects (images, equations...).
Oh, I wasn't thinking of trying to actually read Word documents, but
simply using Word's macro language to generate Word content on the
fly. So, you'd be in Wikipedia, and using Mozex or similar, extract
the current page markup, and magically turn it into something that
could be pasted into Word. After editing, a different macro would do
the reverse - turn the Word content (disregarding anything not
supported by MediaWiki) back into Wiki markup.
The major issue would obviously be achieving idempotency:
towiki(toword(X)) = X. Otherwise, every time you went through the
process, all the text on the page would risk being changed, causing
spurious diffs etc...
Steve
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