small update

[John Oram]

I second Tim's suggestion -- wiki export and import would be 
wonderful, especially support for tables.  Tables in wiki are easy to 
create, but less so to maintain and edit.

The syntax for mediawiki (used by wikipedia.org) is at

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help

and tables are described at

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table

-j

At 5:17 PM +0200 9/4/04, Tim Pritlove wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would be most interested in a flexible way to exchange outlines 
>with Wiki pages. As most wikis do not share exactly the same syntax, 
>this should be highly configurable. Most important in my point of 
>view is MediaWiki (the Wikipedia software which shares most syntax 
>elements with UseMod).
>
>It regularly create outlines with OO and later paste them into a 
>wiki. Sometimes I want to reintegrate and collaboratively edited 
>outline back to OO. Having an import function would be a real hit!
>
>However. Export is most important. So an outline should be exportable as
>
>* first level
>** second level
>** second level
>*** third level
>* first level again
>
>or using the "#" character creating a numbered list. The important 
>part is that one list character (*#) is added per level.
>
>Other Wikis (e.g. Twiki) might expect something like
>
>* first level
>   * second level
>   * second level
>     * third level
>* first level again
>
>This time the list character (*#) is included once but the 
>indentation is important (here it is two spaces per level).
>
>But please consider a wiki import function as well. This would be 
>more than great.
>
>Greetings
>Tim
>
>
>On 03.09.2004, at 23:59, James Moore wrote:
>
>>This list has seemed pretty dead lately so I thought I just poke it 
>>to make sure.
>>
>>We're hard at work on Outliner 3 still. Things are shaping up pretty nicely.
>>
>>One thing that I'm interested in finding out is what file formats 
>>are folks interested in exporting to?
>>
>>The reason I ask is that Outliner 3 is going to allow you to pretty 
>>easily create import and export plugins. I'd like to have a set of 
>>extra plugins available for download when we ship. I'm currently 
>>working on a new LaTeX export plugin. Some of the other formats 
>>we're working on are Excel (via HTML) and Apple Help. MS Word is 
>>going to be rolled in this time around.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-James
>>
>>Technical Support Engineer
>>The Omni Group
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