On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > followup to something i asked about once upon a time, i've been > looking at easy ways to write course content online, then in one > shot generate PDF from it to hand out in class. > > i've noticed that some wikis have such an extension, so i'm > wondering if anyone uses something like that on a regular basis and > can recommend a wiki. > > i don't need backward compatibility -- i want to install it from > scratch on my laptop. so ... thoughts? i'd like the ability to > write wiki pages completely arbitrarily as the urge strikes me, then > later define an ordered list of them to render into PDF. (being > able to define chapter and section breaks in the eventual PDF would > be a bonus.) i did notice one wiki -- dokuwiki -- that has a nice feature you can see here: http://wiki.barebox.org/doku.php i like the ability to write a collection of related documentation, and have it display hierarchically on the left like that, and collapse and expand it arbitrarily. and it appears to have a pdf export extension: https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:pdfexport so i'll be looking at that shortly. still open to other recommendations. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================