On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:28 +0000, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > The main thrust of your proposal is to change the current process, > which can broadly be described as: > > Latex -> PDF/HTML > > to one where you have > > Wiki -> HTML > > AFAICT , we gain: > - easier editing for those not familiar with Latex > - probably more contribution as it's easier to edit > - cross-referencing between completely separate documents > > But we lose > - the ability to produce a nice hardcopy manual, > - real control over the content - anyone can edit the source. > - proper version control (how do you differentiate between what is > relevant to 2.6.0 and 2.4.0?) > > etc..
Stuart, thank you very much for the detailed response to my proposal - and I certainly will revisit those items again in the near future. But since my first proposal, there are some new developments popping up, which I need to evaluate first in more detail: 1) I believe there is no harm when there is a German version in the WIKI - that will definitely not become the "authoritative raw source" - and thus may develop into a pure "user-manual, written for and by users". Without Engineering being responsible for that (but of course they have the same privileges to change like any user). 2) George Patterson did a good job challenging me as "devils advocate", but he also mentioned references to the new developments in Mediawiki's extensions. In the meantime I did some (theoretical) studies on those and it seems that with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PDF_Writer we actually can - create the Manual in small pieces (== unique wiki pages) - "Collect" any wanted wiki-pages in a "Book", still inside the wiki - convert that into a PDF -- including page-numbers and a real Index at the and! In addition each user could print that book any time using e.g. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable and http://pediapress.com/ for himself. Of course he also has to pay for himself --> that seems to amount to about 20$ for 200 pages, inclusive binding, hardcover, etc. Wouldn't that be a nice Xmas-present for FGFS-freaks?) So far the theories -- I will try to challenge that with the German Manual. I suggest to wait for the results of that test and then revisit the opportunities we have. I hope that is acceptable for all of us - again: I will not touch the "authoritative raw source". Thanks and regards joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
