Exporting Lists to MediaWiki / Wikipedia

[James Moore]

Tim, we'll hopefully be accommodating you with Outliner 3. It's export 
system will provide much more flexibility. We're hoping for an August 
release date of Outliner 3.


-James

Technical Support Engineer
The Omni Group

On Jun 9, 2004, at 3:40 PM, Tim Pritlove wrote:

> Hi,
>
> from time to time i use the copy and paste text export of OmniOutliner 
> to bring Outlines in Wiki systems. The current configuration works 
> fine for wikis like TWiki, where a list is generated like this
>
>    * first level is three spaces, asterisk, space
>       * second level is six spaces, asterisk space
>       * and so on
>          * this is level three
>    * back to the first level
>
> But then I tried using the same hack for Wikipedia (MediaWiki) 
> software which I am using a lot recently (both the public system and 
> for internal projects), but the list syntax is different:
>
> *first level is just one asterisk at the beginning of the line
> **second level is another asterisk
> **and so on
> ***this is level three
> *back to the first level
>
> I found it impossible to configure OO to export the outline to a 
> format like that. It would be great if an addition could be made to 
> the software to allow for MediaWiki/UseMod syntax.
>
> Also, having only one setting for text export is problematic when 
> working with different systems. It would be great to be able to save 
> the text export setting and select the current from a list or popup.
>
> So, to give an example, I would set up my OO to have presets for
>
> - copying it to an e-mail (human readable)
> - TWiki syntax (first example)
> - MediaWiki/UseMod syntax (second
>
> Greetings
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
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