Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Re: Make a wiki and centralize all info about firebird there
Author Christian Stengel
Hi,
>
> Sorry, but the Wiki content is not really a documentation set. Besides
> that, we still need PDFs and HTMLs, i.e. LangRef, ApiGuide, etc. And
> they're likely to be bound to FB versions. How do you suggest to
> create
> them from the Wiki contents which is supposed to have a mixture of
> various information inside the every topic?
>

Maby 2 tools might be worth to concider:

* plone as cms (http://plone.org)
+ it can search for content within pdf files
+ it can create content as pdf with a "save as pdf" function
+ easy to use for end users
+ workflow processes for documents
+ Free
- high hardware requirements
- high learning step for designer and developers

* apache forrest (http://forrest.apache.org)
- they provide mechanisms for publishing from different input formats
(even docbook) to different media (web and pdf)
- maby that would be an option to generate the documentation parts

Yours,

Christian