[dokuwiki] Re: Using Dokuwiki to publish books
- From: Gerry Weißbach <gerry.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:40:55 +0200
I personally dislike rewriting plugins too much to meet requirements for book
export. The ODT plugin is great but needs another step to be converted to PDF.
In my company we use another Approach. Style the page to be printed as you like
it. Then use the siteexport plugin with the PDF extension. This works pretty
well and the structural and optical parts are detached. Only caveat: designing
the first template takes a while.
mobile greetings
Gerry.
On 11.10.2010, at 11:27, Chris Tapp <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some time ago I started working to add some new features to DokuWiki so that
> I group I work with can use it to produce books (printed and pdf) directly
> from page content.
>
> The current ODT plugin does most of what we need, but a few other features
> were needed:
>
> 1) Document sections;
> 2) Paragraph alignment;
> 3) Table formatting.
>
> It is also nice if this formatting can also be seen on the wiki pages (even
> if it's only an approximation) as it gives the people entering the content an
> idea of what it will look like when it's exported for publication.
>
> I was communicating with Aurelien Bompard about changes to the ODT plugin to
> add support for ODT features and Anike Henke for the wiki markup (as the wrap
> plugin looked like a good starting point).
>
> Due to the pressures of work I've not been able to look at things for a
> while, but I now need to get to a position where I can finalize the strategy
> that I will use and would like to do things in a way that would be of benefit
> to the DokuWiki community.
>
> The current situation, if my memory serves me correctly, is:
>
> 1) There is a branch with my initial ODT plugin changes.
> 2) Anike is not happy with my proposed changes to the wrap plugin - in a nice
> way, that is :-)
>
> Anike's main concerns are that I am coupling content and presentation too
> tightly for her vision for wrap. She has suggested using wrap as the base for
> a new plugin.
>
> So, I was thinking of creating a new plugin called 'typesetting' that's based
> on 'wrap' and completing the updates to 'odt'.
>
> Does this sound like it's the best way to go? Will it be of benefit to the
> community?
>
> Chris
>
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