In ICE we use MediaWiki and LaTeX, which we convert between each other
either with Pandoc or manually.

Pandoc is awesome, btw!

Jay

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Christian Damus <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi, David, Ed,
>
> Looks like pandoc can convert MediaWiki to AsciiDoc?  Or is that perhaps a
> different AsciiDoc?
>
> http://pandoc.org
>
> Christian
>
>
>
> On 13 July, 2016 at 11:47:11, David Green ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> Agreed, it's not WYSIWYG but it does have features that help out with
> markup, such as a cheat sheet and formatting.  You can find out more here:
> http://help.eclipse.org/neon/topic/org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext.help.ui/help/Getting-Started.html?cp=50_2_1_1#WikiTextEditorOverview
>
> As for conversion to AsciiDoc, it's not currently supported.  WikiText
> does support generating files from within the IDE, e.g. to Confluence,
> Markdown or HTML, but this feature is not yet implemented for generating
> AsciiDoc.  More details can be found here:
> http://help.eclipse.org/neon/topic/org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext.help.ui/help/Markup-Generation.html?cp=50_2_3_0#GenerationInEclipse
>
> David
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:24 PM Ed Willink <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I currently use Mylyn Textile (and quite like it). AsciiDoc looks to be a
>> distinctly better markup since it has an unambiguous escape mechanism. Is
>> there a Convert facility to migrate between markups?
>>
>> It is a bit misleading to imply that Mylyn AsciiDoc (or ...) is WYSIWYG.
>> There is a read-only preview / editable markup tab. WYSIWYG requires
>> editing in the preview.
>>
>>     Regards
>>
>>         Ed Willink
>> On 12/07/2016 21:52, David Green wrote:
>>
>> Jens thanks for the pointers, those look great.  I also prefer to have
>> WikiText-based files as source, and generate Eclipse Help content from
>> them.  Jens has some great links there, but you may also find these useful:
>>
>>
>> http://help.eclipse.org/neon/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext.help.ui%2Fhelp%2FMarkup-Generation.html
>> https://wiki.eclipse.org/DocumentationGuidelines/CrowdSourcingExample
>>
>> The documentation includes details of files-as-source, but also covers an
>> alternate approach of using the Eclipse wiki as source
>> (see mediawiki-to-eclipse-help in the docs).
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:14 PM Jens v.P. < <[email protected]>
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Keith,
>>>
>>> We are currently switching to Asciidoc (
>>> <http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/>http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/),
>>> using Asciidoctor (http://asciidoctor.org/) for tooling. It is
>>> supported by Mylyn’s WikiText (
>>> <https://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/WikiText/AsciiDoc>
>>> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/WikiText/AsciiDoc), and we already
>>> create Eclipse Help, HTML pages, and PDF from a single source.
>>>
>>> We are at the very beginning, and we have only migrated some user
>>> documentation, see
>>> https://github.com/NumberFour/n4js/tree/master/docs/eu.numberfour.n4js.doc.
>>> In the long run, we want to port our Latex based specification to Asciidoc
>>> and use that as the only format. For that, we are currently investigating
>>> custom macros (both for AsciiDoc and Mylyn Wikitext).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jens
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