discuss: WikiText: Still alive? DocBook ==> WikiText? Testing site?
Subject:
Re: WikiText: Still alive? DocBook ==> WikiText? Testing site?
From:
Martin WHEELER ####@####.####
Date:
11 Nov 2003 23:36:34 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0311112325390.13683-100000@caxton.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Is WikiText still alive? Is anybody using it to create LDP documents?
Dunno. I used it extensively a couple of years ago for LDP purposes;
then lost access to it somehow.
> IIUC, the primary direction of WikiText is WikiText => DocBook (in other
> words, you can write a document in WikiText and have it converted to
> DocBook). Is there a (reasonably easy) way to go DocBook => WikiText so I
> can use WikiText to edit a (DocBook) document that was not created in
> WikiText?
Can't really answer this one -- I just used to upload great wodges of
Docbook *marked-up* text -- straight into the wiki. For other authors
to amend as they read.
> Is there a site where I could try out WikiText, perhaps on somebody else's
> document or a trial document (or to start my own trial document)?
If you find it, let me know, will you?
Oh, and someone was asking -- "What *is* a Wiki?"
Well, the easiest way to find out how a wiki can be used in an LDP
environment is to go to:
http://startext.demon.co.uk/distwiki/
and play with a wikified HOWTO that has been there for 3? years, but
gets no attention at all from anyone, not even me any more :(
[A wikiweb is a set of web pages which are editable by the reader --
yes, you can blow away all someone else's work! But responsible folks
don't. Go look at the distwiki and see. Feel free to update and amend
as you wish.]
Cheers,
--
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