Re: [midgard-user] Midgard Web site redesign

[Philipp Rotmann, Linksystem Muenchen]

     Hi there,

On 06.01.01 (20:03), Henri Bergius wrote:
> However, if we are to use CommenText for our documentation
> needs, we will need to integrate it with the Midgard site
> so that they can share authentication information, and we
> can interface with the CommenText system more easily.

Of course. Paul is going te release Commentext as a packaged
application as soon as there's a way to do it ;-)

> At some point we need to be able to produce documentation
> in other formats than just HTML, so we'll need some
> conversion utilities here.

Well...

I'm not sure whether we really want to produce documentation in
plain HTML, and I'm just as sceptic whether the current features
of the formatting engine are enough for documentation purposes.

Maybe it would be the better approach to modify Commentext in a
way that it would be able to work with XML and use the DocBook
XML DTD. A possibility to lower the learning curve to become an
editor would be to write a nice application that would convert
simply formatted text (similar to the Midgard formatting engine,
with some more features) to the XML format used.

> Also, I think that we will still need the annotations system.
> CommenText is still a bit too difficult to use for a casual
> user who happens to get an addition idea while browsing the 
> documentation. How to link this with the CommenText system
> is left to be decided.

Hm, as far as I understood Paul concerning this problem, it
would be no problem to change the Commentext _interface_ in a
way that it would offer a simpler interface to 'simple users'
(not logged in at all, or not logged in as admin).

     phr
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