Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed website

[engelbert . gruber]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ian Haywood wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:21:50 -0500
> David Grant <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Although I like wiki's, how do you keep manuals updated with the content
> > in the wiki?  Wikis are great for doing all sorts of things with, but I
> > don't know how to do a manual in wiki and keep it synchronized with an
> > HTML docbook style manual.
> An interesting project......
>
> The people at Wikibooks.org are likely to come up with a solution
> at some point [probably long before we have a user's manual longer than 10 
> pages]
>
> In the meantime. I think  the advantages
> outweigh this problem, as the docs need to be able to evolve quickly and have
> numerous people work on them. Certainly for the developer's manual we
> should move to Wiki, as it's unlikely people will be printing it
> out (the main advantage of Docbook)

1. zope id books from stx (AFAIR)
2. use a docutils.sf.net based wiki, reST can be translated to html,
   and latex, and there are openoffice, docbook and ...

cheers

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