On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:09, Austin wrote: > Old corporate style is official and looks nice (use XML-related > format or whatever), and can be edited with your favorite editor, but > can't be transferred easily to the wiki, where most docs should > reside IMHO. At the very least, it draws people to the wiki.
> New community style is to write the doc on the wiki. Problem is > editing a large document in a web browser, no syntax highlighting, > etc. Does anyone know of an editor for wiki markup? Also, the > document is then not easily published elsewhere. Is there an easy > way to convert wiki markup to pure HTML, or PDF, or some other > publishing format? > This is something that should be sorted out, as doc writing is an > amazing source of free labour, and allows not-so-technical people to > help out too. The alternative is to regularly update the formal doc from the Wiki, and occasionally browse the Wiki for new formal-doc candidates. Some effort required, but cut-and-paste isn't as hard as thinking up and typing the text in the first place. A first-pass Wiki-to-corporate translator script would probably be helpful. Cheers; Leon
