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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Johan Ivar Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I've now discussed a possible contract (paid by HMN) with a technical
> writer here in Geneva. In addition to being very impressed by the
> flexibility of DHIS and the reasoning behind it, he expressed interest in
> working with this. I will now follow up internally here in HMN, but want to
> keep you updated on the progress.
>
> We discussed if not a wiki-approach would be appropriate, where defining
> the structure (based on ToC) of the manual would be first step. He could
> then work on his preferred platform (word), and it could then be fed into
> different sections. For this, we would have a good framework for a) several
> languages (just do like wikipedia), and b) open, easy for us to add more
> stuff ourselves later.


This may come in handy
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus


>
> There are supposed to be some tools for converting wikipages to pdf docs,
> which would be very useful if we go for this solution.


http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export


> Then, with a click of a button, you would get the manual based on the
> latest wiki content. We already have plenty of wikis to use for this purpose
>
> Any comments appreciated.
> Johan
>
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Cheers,
Knut Staring