[dundee] CMS for documentation?

[Christopher Wyllie]

Thanks for the suggestions, they look interesting. Moinmo I did see when
looking for wikis, but I hadn't considered asp.NET solutions, I always
forget that mono can usually run them.

Cheers,
  Chris

On 8 July 2011 09:17, James Carter <jamescarter_uk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Wordpress uses a seperate clunky cms editor off screen, not so good
> for documentation and painfully slow requiring mysql.
>
> I would stick with a wiki like you first suggested as I don't
> believe they're visually unappealing if you play with the stylesheet.
> If you make a nice banner at the top of the page they can look quite nice.
>
> The best I've used are faster and easier to understand than docuwiki
> and don't need a database, although dokuwiki is not a bad one as far
> as php goes as it doesn't need a database and I actually like databases!
> It looks awful so I understand your issue there.
>
> http://moinmo.in/         python powered, there's a plugin to export
>
>                           whole wiki as pdf, very few wikis will do this
> out of the box.
>
> http://www.screwturn.eu   highly recommended functionality written in c#/
> asp.net
>                           generally IIS/windows only but can be got to run
> on linux/mono
>                           but no pdf export unless you wrote one, nice
> editor.
>
>
> James
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Christopher Wyllie <cgwyllie at gmail.com>
> To: Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 23:11
> Subject: Re: [dundee] CMS for documentation?
>
>
> Aha!
>
> True enough that. Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't considered it (doh)!
>
> Cheers,
>   Chris
>
>
> On 5 July 2011 18:20, Huntly Cameron <huntly.cameron at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Chris,
> >
> >Wordpress with a bunch of plugins will probably do what you need it to do.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Huntly
> >
> >
> >On 05/07/11 16:49, Christopher Wyllie wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I was wondering if anyone can suggest a tool to manage user
> >> documentation online in a nice coherent fashion? I've looked at a lot of
> >> wikis and they are functionally very good but (usually) visually
> >> appalling. Ideally I'm looking for something that can provide the
> following:
> >>
> >>     * Easy to integrate Images and possibly video content
> >>     * Source code highlighting for code snippets
> >>     * Hierarchical chapters/categories
> >>     * Searchable by keyword
> >>     * Tables of contents generated for each page based on headings/sub
> >>       headings
> >>     * Easy to change the theme/default look
> >>     * Multiple output formats (HTML, PDF)
> >>
> >> I've tried setting up dokuwiki but found its themes to be quite messy
> >> and broken from version to version.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >>   Chris
> >>
> >>
> >>
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