Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed manual

[James Busser]

On 9-Sep-08, at 12:50 PM, Gour wrote:

> Karsten> How do I do that if all I have is a Windows machine with
> Karsten> Notepad ?  And no, I can certainly not install anything on  
> that
> Karsten> machine.
>
> My recommendation is to just write down in Notepad and, if you like,
> commit plan reST to the server, if you REALLY need it.

There is a problem when one hopes to contribute a bit of work from a  
locked-down unowned (e.g. hospital) machine... some of them will not  
accept USB sticks and, even if they did, I alsways find a risk of  
leaving it behind or untended when called away or having to move  
around the hospital.

Typically on such machines, even if you did have some local "write"  
ability, you would not be able to sync that diskspace nor be allowed  
to access it from outside the institution. This reduces the  
contributor to having to record it somewhere via the web, which  
purpose the wiki serves.

I agree with avoiding where possible to do anything twice, or at  
least -- if something is needed in more than one form -- by needing  
only 1.9x effort or, ideally, only 1.1x.

If there is a tool that can pull from the wiki, all the better.  
Ideally we might define either an internal wiki page, or an external  
template, in which the wiki pages of interest can be specified, and  
those could get "pulled" (with their wiki syntax converted) into some  
other form.

The wiki can by the way be pulled down anonymously with

	wget http://salaam.homeunix.com/~ncq/gnumed/wiki-backup/GNUmed-Wiki- 
backup.tgz

There is presently at least one tool of possible value (below) but  
only for limited purposes (PDF)... I will aim to see if there are  
others useful for some interconversion. I am happy to look at ways to  
contribute to a manual but the wiki does serve many useful purposes  
at least at this early stage. At the same time I agree that something  
that did not need to be online would be worth developing, if we are  
being optimistic to make GNUmed even more future-usable.

https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/GenPDFAddOn