Revdocs on a wiki

[David Bovill]

On 27 Oct 2005, at 21:02, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Perhaps I don't know enough about wiki's, but it would sure be nice  
> if they could organize data in a form which could be printed in a  
> real-book format (and had an 'export to PDF' button which did just  
> that, including TOC and index).
>
> While they do provide a nice 'random-access' interface (search &  
> find), I'm not sure they can really take the place of good serial  
> documentation, which has a beginning, middle and end. And it sure  
> seems like *that* is most needed as well. In fact, I believe the  
> original RevDocs (mostly written by Jeanne DeVoto) were written to  
> accomplish both ways of accessing information.
>
> Perhaps Dan Shafer or Jeaane DeVoto might weigh in on this topic as  
> both are accomplished documentation writers.

This is possible now in a number of ways. And yes Dan - maybe you  
should weigh in here :)