Jacqueline McNally wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I've had little experience with wikis and quite honestly at this
point I have no idea how one might use a wiki to create end-user docs
intended to be provided in ODT, PDF or printed form instead of online
form. But I'd very much like to learn more. In fact, I need to write
a short section for a textbook on this very topic, so I have an
urgent requirement to learn more!
You may wish to look at how Ubuntu utilise their wiki for documentation,
see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocteamGettingStarted
Ubuntu are similar to OpenOffice.org in that they use other tools such
as mailing lists, version control system (Subversion in their case),
IRC, and bug tracking. Their final output is in DocBook.
Thanks for that pointer, Jacqueline. I've used the Ubuntu wiki to
look up things when I was setting up my Ubuntu system, but I had
not stumbled upon the section to do with writing the
documentation (which is the URL you gave), so I'm glad to see it.
So far I haven't had time to go beyond the first page, but I will
do so soon.
Regards, Jean
