On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 21:16, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 3, 2011, at 11:16 AM, C wrote: >> - PDF and ODT export. Confluence can do PDF, but cannot do ODT.. >> only MS Word DOC format (a significant issue in my view for an OOo >> Wiki... a bit sad and embarassing that we'd only be able to export a >> proprietary document format, and not the primary doc format that OOo >> is known for). Export to PDF and ODT is something a lot of people use >> for the OOo Docs - especially the Basic and Developer's Guides. > > I understand the need for ODT export. Tell us about the MediaWiki extension > that is being used, is it part of OOo or is it a third party extension?
It's a MediaWiki extension, created by PediaPress - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection >> - IDL Tags - custom (but simple) MW extension that creates links to >> the IDL library > > Do you mean these links: > > http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/XTopWindowListener.html > > We will need to rewrite these anyway. Tell me how these are marked up in > MediaWiki. > > Is the IDL reference generated from the source code? We'll need to get into > that workflow too. The IDL Extension is all documented here - including the full source of the extension itself, and how it's implemented/used within the Wiki text: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Wiki_maintenance/IDLTagExtension > No doubt this is a challenge in Confluence - it likes a flat hierarchy. > > If a MoinMoin Wiki is a better fit for conversion from MediaWiki we can > certainly try it. I've never done a lot with MoinMoin, so can't really comment on that one. The book-like hierarchy in the existing MediaWiki is created by a combination of sub-pages and the TOC navigation. It is not really the perfect implementation, but it works and keeps things at least somewhat "book-like".... makes it possible to generate PDF books, and provides a book-like navigation or flow through a topic. The other choice, and something I experimented with, is huge monster long pages with entire chapters in a single Wiki page. This is a nightmare to try and edit and maintain. C. -- Clayton Cornell [email protected] OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
