> Hi T.J - > > One thing that has piqued my curiosity is how is the > wiki converted to a > docbook format?
- wiki2docbook To my knowledge, there is no script/program to direct convert wiki to docbook/tex nicely http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=wiki&mode=dist has some perl scripts that may be helpful. - my problem with wiki is that there is no single syntax standard. I like moinmoin wiki but medidawiki has more publicity and more contents. - But again wiki eliminate the single authorship bottleneck and provide easy way for group contribution. This make it a good tool for team documentation work. - Not to downplay the importance of professional documentation work. This is needed also. I believe some Solaris documentation by professional will show up in Oreilly bookstore soon. - before wiki2docbook(mediawiki2docbook specifically) is avaiable. manual editing from wiki to docbook/tex is needed. > See other comments in line - > ginnie > > > T.J. Yang wrote: > > > >> From: Virginia Wray <Virginia.Wray at Sun.COM> > >> Reply-To: Virginia.Wray at Sun.COM > >> To: TJ Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> > >> CC: docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > >> Subject: Re: [docs-discuss] OpenSoalris > Documentation tool ? > >> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:06:41 -0600 > >> > >> Hi TJ - > >> > >> What type of documentation are you interested in > contributing? If you > >> want to contribute to the System Administration > documentation at > >> docs.sun.com, currently you would work with a > sponsor to add your > >> contribution. > > > > > > I am intrested to contribute "Opensolaris with TWW > HPMS". > > Titel in this URL > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSolaris, should be > > rename later to > > "TWW HPMS with Opensolaris". > > > > This document will document my effort(others > welcome to join) > > regarding to TWW and opensolaris. > > > > For my understanding, Sun use FrameMaker to create > document in > > docs.sun.com. > > But F.M. may not a good tool for opensolaris given > it is not freelly > > avaiable. > > > I can't speak for all of the documentation on > docs.sun.com, so you may > be correct that some is done in Frame. I personally > work with a version > of docbook that Sun has taken and modified for it's > purposes. Thanks for this information. I didn't know Sun has a version of docbook on Solaris and use it to generate document. if we want to use docbook then the standard docbook software packages for Solaris need to be worked on. At work, I asked http://www.thewrittenword.com to package some of docbook related software(opensp etc ..) with the intention to use docbook on my Soarlis boxes at work, but I never has time to migrate my docbook work from RH to Solaris. Someworks still need to be done before Solaris docbook package upto standard of RedHat's docbook. I really like docbook on RH, Diffent kind of formats(RTF,ps,pdf,html) can be gernerated by a makefile easily. No need to fire up GUI application. very good for automation. tj This message posted from opensolaris.org
