Hi, Takashi Ono,
This time I've interpolated my comments.
Takashi Ono wrote:
Hi TJ,
Thank you for the comment. I succesfully created the barebone wiki page.
Actually, no, because it would have shown up on the "Recent Changes"
special page. If you got as far as editing the new page, and then
cancelled instead of saving, that's fine.
In message "Re: [dev] MinGW port build guide",
T. J. Frazier wrote...
>Before I can advise you how to get your source onto the wiki, I'll need
>to know exactly what steps you used to copy the source. From an ordinary
>Writer page, it's easy: just copy to the clipboard, and paste into the
>wiki editor. From Writer/Web, I'm not so sure, but you can try that. If
>the *Show preview* looks good, go with it. Otherwise, we can work out
>something; I can always write a little Basic clean-up code. I do that a lot.
>
>Let me know how you want to proceed.
I have got html source of Windows Build Guide page from a browser and edited it with
Writer(Web) and finding difficulty to change the draft in html into wiki source,
inheriting attributes. Copy and paste can transfer the characters but more than half of
the page is not changed from the original and I do not want to edit attributes and links
there.
I was afraid of that. You might try export to MediaWiki (*File > Export
> MediaWiki(.txt)*. The trick there comes after the export: you need to
load the resulting output file very carefully. It has a .txt extension,
but you must tell Writer to load "Text, encoded". That gives you the
Ascii Filter dialog, where you should specify "UTF-8" for the encoding,
and "LF" in the radio buttons at the bottom. Then you can see what the
results were, of the export. If it looks good, try copy-and-paste into
the wiki editor.
Maybe I should get wiki source of the original version of Windows Build Guide and do
editing again from the scratch.
It might come to that, although I'm sorry if you have to do the extra
work. It is simple: just edit the wiki page, select and copy all the
source (then cancel the edit), then paste that into a blank Writer page.
(You can save and load that .odt document normally.) When you're done,
just copy-and-paste into your new page.
When I do that, I usually have to make a few adjustments, on the wiki,
to get the page looking right. That's what *Show preview* is for.
The big disadvantage of this method is that the editing (in Writer) has
to be done in wiki-markup, and you can't see your results until the very
end. You might just want to work directly on the wiki, instead: copy the
wiki source as above, paste into your new page, and attack! ;-) That
way, you can use *Show preview* to see how you're doing.
Don't worry about cluttering up the wiki with trash. Deleting an
unwanted page is trivial. And probably nobody will see your work unless
and until I add your page to the TOC. Feel free to take several sessions
/ days / weeks to get it the way you want it, before asking the world
for comments.
Whatever you decide to do, I will remain available for wiki-tech
assistance. After you create your page, we can talk on the Discussion
page, if you like.
Best Regards,
Takashi Ono ([email protected])
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Best of luck, /tj/
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