Revdocs on a wiki

[Chipp Walters]

Sivakatirswami,

Hmmmm.
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PublishPDF

Had a heck of a time trying to find that link! I think this may be a 
problems with wiki's in general..navigating to want you want. There is 
no 'forced' organization and as such no one ever seems to know where 
everything is.

But that link is very interesting. In fact I've got a complete GUI 
written around the openSource version of HTMLDOC. Currently it only 
works on Windows, but I seem to remember handing off the Mac/Linux port 
to Klaus? I'm not sure as it's been awhile.

In any case, Altuit's HTML2PDF plugin for Hemingway uses HTMLDOC to 
successfully convert Hemingway websites into PDF documentation, 
including linked Table of Contents. I believe Dan Shafer is using this 
process to build his eBooks.

The problem with HTMLDOC is that it only handles very few markup tags. 
So, one couldn't produce a magazine quality PDF document from it, but 
it's great for documentation.

For instance:

I wrote a simple stack which parsed the XML help stack and built a 
website out of it, and then converted the website to a PDF document:

It's not inclusive, but you can get the idea here:

http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/Transcript/default.htm

Question:

How would one manage 'wiki-bloat' where different people post so much 
commentary about a function or handler or feature, that it becomes 
impossible to navigate through? Would special 'editors' need be 
appointed? If a wiki could be converted into a PDF, I'm not so sure I 
like the idea of a single PDF document with *everyones* thoughts on a topic.

I'm sure this topic has come up before.

best,

Chipp


Sivakatirswami wrote:
> www.pmwiki.org offers some solutions to most of these   problems...check 
> it out the cookbook recipes for PDF export of the  wiki pages.