On Jun 7, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Lasse Kliemann wrote: > * Message by -Chris Buxton- from Tue 2008-06-03: >> You could use a CMS for this, where you maintain flat text files and >> it formats them as HTML. You could also probably use a wiki, so that >> the book could be edited collaboratively. > > One does not need a wiki for that. Just give everyone SVN access (or > whatever > revision control system is in use). A wiki means that people are > forced to do > text work inside of a web browser. That's not what web browsers were > designed > for. I want to use *real* text editors and not that toy "editor" > which is > offered by current web browsers, and which has virtually no editing > capabilities and where I will lose my work whenever the browser > crashes or > the browser window is closed by accident. I know that there exists > mozex and > alike, but these are nothing more than workarounds that will get in > the way > of productivity sooner or later.
Just copy the text from the wiki editing page, paste into a text editor, make changes, and reverse to put it back in. I suppose SVN would work, but I'm not that familiar with SVN. I am familiar with using a wiki. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men & Mice -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
