Re: [Interwiki] Fwd: Re: [expert] word to wiki format converter

[Bayle S. <bs...@uc...>]

i have a script that takes a directory of text files and uploads them
to a wiki. it should work with mediawiki.

but it doesn't do any formattting conversion at all. 

i know there are commandline programs like antiword that try to
convert MS word files to text. 

So one possible thing to do would be to use a shell script using
antiword to convert every file in the directory to text, and then use
my script to upload every text file. 

but the uploaded files would have no formatting.






On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:10:08PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Over on the ex...@ma... list someone is asking about converting 
> MS Word and Apple Notebook files to (specifically) MediaWiki.  I thought 
> maybe there might be some suggestions over here.
> 
> If you have any, I'll pass them along.
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 
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> 
> Subject: Re: [expert] word to wiki format converter
> Date: Thursday 22 September 2005 02:22 pm
> From: "Jim C." <jli...@gm...>
> To: ex...@ma...
> 
> > Jim, I don't know MediaWiki, but TWiki can read html if it's not too
> > complicated.  Try exporting one document to html and see if MediaWiki can
> > handle it.
> 
> Well, ideally we would need a command line utility that could convert an
> entire directory all at once, even if we do need an intermediate file
> format.  I know there's probably a utility out there that will convert
> word to *.ps or *.pdf or even HTML but are there any utlities for
> converting any of these to something like *.wiki, or *.twiki or anything
> close?  If I need to convert between wiki formats, I can always use sed.
> 
> The real problem is going to be those Apple Notebook files which are
> *.nb  Apple Notebook comes with NO export capability. :-/
> 
> Jim C.
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