Info pages and Wiki

On 24 Nov., 10:25, Markus Armbruster <arm....TakeThisOut@pond.sub.org> wrote:
> Creating an Empire Wiki is probably a good idea. But there are a few
> problems to solve regarding the info pages.
>
> Info pages need to be in the Wiki. Otherwise, what's the point of
> having one?

as promised, here's my first new blob of mustard, or just my 2 cents,
if you prefer that phrase...
The Wiki would be a great place for elaborating a new guide/manual to
WPEmpire, a comprehensive piece of work, to find ALL information
about the game (this may sound bulky and voluminous, and definetly
will be, when creating it).
So also putting the info pages in the Wiki, is perhaps just a good way
to update and maintain them, but I too admit, that this may not be
that easy.


> Our info pages are marked up with our very own set of troff macros.
> Maintaining them, I've learned much more about troff than I ever
> wanted. Wiki text is much friendlier for the casual user, and
> switching to that would be an improvement, I think. Maintaining
> them in both troff and Wiki text is out of the question.
>
> Obviously, we need to convert info from our troff markup to Wiki text,
> preserving markup as faithfully as possible. We already have a Perl
> hack to convert them to HTML, which we probably could adapt for the
> job.

Why not switching to HTML completely and stay with that. Did I miss
the point?


> A Wiki could have an export function to something other than HTML that
> we can render to plain text. XML or SGML (*shudder*) using suitable
> document types can be fed to Jade (*shudder*^2), which can render to
> plain text through groff.

Can't we easily render HTML to plain text? Do we inevitably need the
Wiki markup language? Or is it possible to use HTML in the Wiki?
Well I see, where that leads to. These questions reveal much more my
ignorance, than helping along with Markus' issues.

So, I'm already quite, just my 2 cents...

Good night!