[pmwiki-users] Using PmWiki for authoring a book

[Sandy]

That's the final piece!

Next year's reunion, get ready for the online and printed versions of 
Great-Grandma's cookbook! (Assuming cousin Arlene gets me copies of the 
original, and I can read them.)

Sandy



Andrew Standfield wrote:
> OMG... that thing is so damn cool. I've bookmarked it on Magnolia,  
> and will need to come back to it at some point. I want to do some  
> interesting things with it including giving aesthetic treatments to  
> some Project Gutenberg e-texts.
> 
> 
> Andy Standfield
> http://www.vertigo25.com/
> http://www.ipodnirvana.com/
> 
> 
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:11 PM, John Rankin wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday, 26 August 2006 7:02 AM,  
>> christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any suggestions as to how to set the thing up?
>>> Further down the road you should have a look at John Rankin's  
>>> recipe for
>>> converting wiki pages to beatifully typeset PDF's via LaTeX. (I'm  
>>> CC:ing
>>> him because I can't remember the name of the recipe right now and  
>>> he might
>>> have some tips on how to set up the site to make the generation of  
>>> the
>>> book easy).
>> I am just looking at the first test of a brand new 'book template',
>> which typesets page collections in a book style. It's stunning. It
>> supports a preface, aphorisms at the start of each chapter, a choice
>> of chapter styles, contents page, and so on. It will be released
>> "soon" as an update to the current recipe and typesetting server.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the cookbook recipe is PublishPDF and it supports single
>> and multi-wikipage pdf output.
>>
>> To generate a multi-wikipage output, you set up a wiki trail page
>> and add a (:typeset:) directive to the trail page. Later, you will
>> be able to change this to (:typeset-book:).
>>
>> For more information, see http://www.wikipublisher.org/
>>
>>
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>> JR
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>> John Rankin
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