I also use the text editor approach see http://wikieducator.org/Help:Editing_using_a_text_editor http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
________________________________ From: Jim Tittsler <jtitts...@gmail.com> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, March 14, 2010 3:44:28 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] WE pages editing and connection On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:13, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 14:24, Randy Fisher <wikira...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You could develop your pages in Open Office (resident on your PC), then >> export the files to Mediawiki format, > > Or in any text editor in Mediawiki markup, and just paste into the > page. You will no doubt want to print a cheat sheet, or save one to > your hard drive. > >> and copy and paste them into your >> desired wiki page. (in some cases you can directly import the files into the >> page.) I use the text editor approach, combined with the It's All Text Firefox extension. My preferred text editor allows syntax highlighting of wikitext, making it more obvious when I've made a mistake in my wikitext (and helping count braces in my templates). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com