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Q: Is there a tool to change a simple html page into wiki format, or must it be done manually? I'm thinking ahead to making wiki versions of say
http://db.etree.org/shn_walkthrough.html or maybe
http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnlinks.html
I found this ref to a Korean app, which is not always online:
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/HtmlToWikiConverter
Unfortunately, when I tried on
http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnlinks.html it lost every active link to elsewhere. Rather unsatisfactory. --
DianaHamilton
Q: What is a category? I'm afraid to fill in the
Add document to category box in ignorance. --
DianaHamilton
A: See Tavi:TaviCategories
? . They don't really seem worth worrying about at this point for etree.org's wiki. --
DianaHamilton
Q: How do you prevent Wiki from automatically creating a link? For example, in my
LftpQueue document, refernces to the 'set' parameter "
ftp:passive-mode off" are turned into an ftp link (as you can see here). I do not want that to become a link, as it is invalid, but I can't figure out a way to make it "unlink". Nothing about this is found in
EditingTips. Thanks! -
ryan
A: Check out Tavi:FormalFormattingRules
? . I think you could use backticks (item 3 at the moment). Let us know how it goes! -
DianaHamilton
Followup: Yes, that worked great Diana. Three backticks will kill my example link:
ftp:passive-mode
ftp:passive-mode
I fixed up my howto documents already, thx!!! -
ryan