Re: twiki format to docbook

[Paul Pianta <pantz lqt ca>]

Dave Pawson wrote:

> If that was the deliverable fine.
>   If someone could write a sed script to markup those wikiwords
> into something usable??
>   Given a set of documents which needed conversion I guess its possible,
> but I'd guess that a suite of documents isn't ready at the same time?
>   Or am I wrong?

a couple of us are working on a 'customizing anaconda' doc and we are 
using a twiki format which sounds the same as wiki (format is consistent 
anyway - therefore parseable).

feel free to run any tests you want using our docs as a base ...

the reason we chose a twiki was because we are all terrified of using 
SGML and Emacs - and the twiki syntax is super easy to learn ... If 
there was a tool to convert a finished wiki/twiki doc into docbook - 
that would make the whole process SOOO much easier for the majority of 
people - and we would have alot more docs produced as a nice bonus!

personally - i took a quick look at the fedora-doc tutorial but i bombed 
out when it came to Emacs stuff (pretty early that means). I have never 
touched emacs in my life and i am very happy editing with vi and gedit. 
I don't want to learn emacs - i know it is powerful and efficient once 
you get familiar with it - but i honestly don't have the time to get 
familiar with it! I have already put in years of time learning vi 
tricks. I also find the emacs interface outdated and counter-intuitive 
(for a newbie anyway).

So after such a rant ... I would just like to say that it would be nice 
to have something other than just emacs to choose from when creating 
docs for the fedora-doc project. If a wiki/twiki converter is possible, 
or something else (conglomerate?) then bring in on!!

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