[Mediawiki-l] What Wiki are we each working on?

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 21:10:53 UTC 2007


Frederik Dohr wrote:
> Conversely, writing a long document (e.g. a manual) in the wiki pretty 
> much demands the use of subpages to split up the contents. That, 
> however, complicates exporting the wiki pages and combing them in a 
> single document (DOC or PDF). (Not to mention the general issue of 
> converting hypertext to linear documents.)
> Also, I am not aware of any production-ready wiki2doc (or wiki2odf) 
> converters that would enable us to fine-tune the layout in a word processor.

Magnus made some time ago a tool able to export from wiki markup to 
OpenOffice and PDF (although i haven't seen it on action) among other 
formats.

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/wiki2xml/w2x.php




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