Fwd: Help test the DocBook output of MoinMoin

[Matthew East]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mikko Virkkilä <mvirkkil at cc.hut.fi>
Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Subject: Help test the DocBook output of MoinMoin
To: Mark.Koszuch at kfw.de, kwade at redhat.com, mdke at ubuntu.com,
dcramer at motive.com, benny.malengier at ugent.be, henrik at gotadsl.co.uk,
pierce at xtuple.com


You have expressed interest in using the MoinMoin wiki together with
DocBook. I have worked on improving the docbook output support in the
MoinMoin wiki for the upcoming release of 1.7. This time I'm working
directly on the main trunk and not a separate branch, so the
improvements are going to be in 1.7 when it is released (sometime
during spring, freeze is scheduled in two weeks).

Most of the work is directly ported over from the 1.6-docbook branch
which never got merged to 1.6. This includes a boatload of bugfixes
and improvements. There are some completely new features too, such as
better/native support for admonitions and revision history.

The work has focused on the output formatter, so the import
functionality of docbooks and the export functionality of docbook
books and resources has not been ported over.

What I need now is people testing the functionality. There is a test
wiki for the 1.7 release at http://test17.moinmo.in/ which you can
freely edit. If you find issues please don't hesitate to e-mail me
about them.

A summary about the changes so far:
 * Output valid DOCTYPE
 * Much improved table support
 * Support for unicode and HTML entities like →(=?) and ☃ (=?)
 * Support for FootNote macro
 * Support for bulletless lists
 * Much better support for definitions and glossaries
 * Added support for program language and line numbering in code areas
 * Images should now always get an absolute path
 * Support for the MoinMoin comment element was added. Mapped to a remark.
 * Admonitions see http://test17.moinmo.in/HelpOnAdmonitions
 * Revision history using the wiki page's edit history

So, please go to http://test17.moinmo.in/ to help making sure the
docbook output will be top-notch in MoinMoin 1.7.0.

- Mikko





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Matthew East
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