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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 15:18:56 +0000 (UTC), "Oliver Giesen" <ogware at gmx.net> wrote: >While I welcome the separation of the monolithic document into separate >Wiki pages for each chapter, I have some concerns: > >- The links are currently plain ugly (probably the result of an >incomplete conversion script): Instead of the link text itself being >linked it is prefixed with a text of the form "CvsChapter###" which >then carries the link. This makes text unreadable and especially the >navigation headers/footers highly unusable. There is no easy conversion from the old documentation to Wiki - in fact the page numbers come directly from the old documentation which was split in that way. The source was texi2html which made a complete pigs ear of the formatting. There's no such thing as a texinfo->wiki script and I still don't know enough about how texinfo works to start writing one (too late now, anyway). >I currently feel I do not know enough about Wiki (yet) to judge what >alternatives would be sensible or how hard they would be to implement. >I am hoping that someone (maybe myself) comes up with something quick >as I'd like to update the currently broken links in the CVSGUI FAQ ASAP >but I don't want to have to do it all over again next week... > It's a slow job tidying it up. For an example of a 'tidy' page see CvsChapter177, CvsChapter10 or CvsIndex... basically I sort out the header (copy/paste and change the next/last page numbers), drop the footer and sort out the links (by putting wiki: in the front of them, mostly). The complete mess that is the formatting is just a matter of going through and sorting it out. There's no way I can see of doing this automatically... it's pretty random - a mixture of bugs in the output of texi2html and the html->wiki script I don't think the wiki has any kind of 'rename page' (certainly not any way that'll fixup all the links anyway) so we're probably stuck with the names. Tony