On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 09:17 -0400, Chris Nelson wrote:
>> Olemis Lang wrote:
>> > Hi !
>> >
>> > Now I'm facing a situation where (some) users (want | need) to use MS
>> > Office to edit wiki pages, even if WYSIWYG plugin . I'd like to know
>> > if there's an OOTB way (using plugins ;o) to add a button to wiki
>> > pages (e.g. `Edit with MS Office`) so that, on clicking such button
>> > the wiki page will be converted to MS Office (I'd like to say ODF, but
>> > they don't use it ...) format, downloaded by the browser and open in
>> > edit mode inside MS Word ...
>>
>> This sounds more like a broswer problem than a Trac problem.  I use the
>> "It's All Text" plugin
>> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/) to edit wiki in
>> emacs.  It should apply to any external editor.
>
> Ditto. It runs gvim here. I only wonder how you will deal with any
> formatting they do. Will a bullet or numbered list make it back into
> trac?

That would be the idea ...

> Tables are even more questionable.

Agreed !

> I really cannot see why the
> WYSIWYG editor in would not work.
>

Because they are used to Sharepoint and, since it's an MS product,
it's tightly integrated with MS Office (e.g. values of columns in MOSS
libraries become document properties auto-magically and vice-versa ;o)
. Editing a document in Sharepoint works somehow similar to what I
mentioned above ;o)

> Having said that, has anyone gotten the WIKI export feature of
> OpenOffice working with Trac? I know it is MediaWiki formatting. Just
> curious. Perhaps a new OpenOffice export filter to convert docs to Trac
> wiki markup?
>

Hey ! Wanna know !
:)

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