Re: twiki format to docbook

[Dave Pawson <dpawson nildram co uk>]

At 14:46 09/03/2004, Paul Pianta wrote:


> 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 ...

Thanks. You pick a couple of pages, I'll try running them.


> 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!

Apart from tables and definition lists I finished the
conversion to xml today.
  $ is some special character, hence no dd/dt processing
without work.

And yes, it is for twiki :-)
  Pity you didn't pick another wiki variant, but c'est la vie.




> 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).

Good investment.. honest.
  Painful, but high rewards in buying the O'Reilly emacs book.


>  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 I also find the emacs interface outdated and 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).

OK. vim has an xml mode I believe?



> 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!!


Gimme the test files, and I'll be back :-)

regards DaveP