Re: [Xen-users] "Hello Xen Project" Book.

[Mohsen <mohsen1365b@yahoo.com>]

Thank you so much Lars.
I like to see the first chapter and I must say that LibreOffice on Windows OS has the MediaWiki plug in and working very well. 
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On Wed, 4/12/17, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Xen-users] [Xen-devel] "Hello Xen Project" Book.
 To: "Mohsen" <mohsen1365b@yahoo.com>
 Cc: "Mohsen Mostafa Jokar" <mohsenjokar@gmail.com>, "Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>, "xen-devel" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, "xen-users@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-users@lists.xenproject.org>
 Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 5:36 PM
 
 Hi all,
 I had
 a go at converting the first chapter* See https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:HelloXenProjectBook (and https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Book/HelloXenProject/Instructions_for_Conversion)* And https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Book/HelloXenProject/0-Contents
 All
 relevant information for people to help out is there. If
 anyone wants to help and needs some advice, feel free to do
 so
 Best
 RegardsLars
 On 4 Apr 2017, at 15:25, Mohsen <mohsen1365b@yahoo.com>
 wrote:
 Thank you for openSUSE VM and the libreoffice-wiki-publisher but
 you must split the .odt file?  
 
 
    On Monday, April 3, 2017 8:38 AM,
 Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com>
 wrote:
  
 
 
  
 > On 29 Mar 2017, at 05:51, Juergen
 Gross <jgross@suse.com>
 wrote:
 > 
 > On 28/03/17 21:33,
 Mike Wright wrote:
 >> On 03/28/2017 12:11 PM,
 Mohsen wrote:
 >>> I'm using LibreOffice
 4.3.3.2 on Debian amd64 and this version not
 >>> have MediaWiki export
 function!!
 >>
 
 >> There was a
 deb for the libreoffice extension
 >> libreoffice-wiki-publisher. 
 Give that a try.
 >
 
 > In the end you
 need that only once for the initial conversion. So
 > instead of trying to
 find the correct package you could just use
 > your Xen skills to create an
 openSUSE VM and do it there. :-)
 
 Juergen, thanks for the tip. I
 installed an openSUSE VM and the libreoffice-wiki-publisher
 came as default, which is good. So I ran a few tests.
 
 First, what I couldn't get to
 work: I tried Send > MediaWiki in the hope that this
 would allow transferring of images, but could not get it to
 work. There seems to be an issue with authentication on the
 XenProject wiki side. But File > Export [MediaWiki
 (.txt)] works. 
 
 Also, I couldn't find
 any docs for the converter: the help links to pages which do
 not exist. But hey, we can live with that.
 
 Here is what I learned:
 =======================
 * The export granularity
 is 1 LibreOffice document to 1 Wiki Page
 * Most of the basic formatting such as
 lists and tables get correctly converted, but the converter
 introduces an awful lot of <span
 style"...">...</span> and <div
 style"...">...</div> attributes.
 Basically it does this every time, something slightly out of
 the ordinary has been done with text. These may have to be
 stripped with on-line tools such as http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/strip-tags/
 or similar, otherwise the wiki pages become a nightmare
 to edit in future.
 *
 URLs are correctly converted
 * Headlines (aka text marked as
 "Heading 1", "Heading 2", etc. are not
 converted) to = ... =, == ... ==, etc.
 * Images are not converted: when an
 image is found, "[[image:|top]]" is inserted
 * I don't know how
 code snippets will come across in terms of formatting, as I
 don't have the ODT source of the book
 
 What does this mean:
 ====================
 In principle, this means that should
 be doable with 1-2 days worth of work. However it's not
 going to be entirely trivial. What we would need to do is
 to:
 * Break the
 original book ODT file into smaller sections (probably along
 the chapter structure as exposed in the Contents)
 * Then take each of the
 ODT files and do the following
 ** Save as MediaWiki (.txt) [1]. If
 appropriate remove tags using http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/strip-tags/
 ** Save as html [2] - to
 get the images. The bad news is that the images are saved
 using some hash names and not in the order they are in the
 document
 ** Create the
 wiki page from [1]
 **
 Fix up bad formatting (such as missing = ... =, == ... ==,
 etc.)
 ** Manually
 upload the images from [2]
 ** Add appropriate [[Category:...]]
 tags at the bottom of each page. At least one for the
 wiki-book, e.g. [[Category:HelloXenProjectBook]] or
 something similar. But of course further categories per
 topic can be added as needed.
 
 Once we have all the content, create
 the common pages such as contents, credits, etc. - and we
 should have a good starting point.
 
 Best Regards
 Lars
   
 
  
 
 
 
 
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