And here is our interesting-new-tool-of-the-week. :)
Trying to find something similar to `doc-book.sf.net` I stumbled upon
WikiPublisher [1]:
[1]:
http://www.wikipublisher.org
It's basically a plugin for 'pmwiki' that outputs a 'WikiBook XML' and
a server
that converts this syntax to PDF. This allows to ouput a PDF from any wiki page
*and* create whole books based on inter-wiki links. You can try this by clicking
Typeset book at [2]:
[2]:
http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/index.php?n=Wikipublisher.UserGuide
The server is written in Perl and uses Latex to do the job. To use it, we'd need
to write a plugin for Moin to export to the Wikibook XML and run the Perl server.
Pros:
* Backend is upstream and actively developed
* Customizable PDF
* Backend is in Perl (not PHP)
Cons:
* Requires yet another export mechanism
* Backend is in Perl (not Python)
* DocBook out of the way -- how to do translations??
-d
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