[Coco] NitrOS-9 Project Website

Wed Apr 7 02:12:52 EDT 2010

I found a reasonably easy way to convert Word documents to WIKI format:

1) Email the Word document to your Gmail account

2) In Gmail, view the document as HTML

3) Copy everything between (but not including) the <body> and </body> tags 
to the clipboard

4) Paste the text into 
http://www.ebruni.it/en/software/os/i_love_wiki/index.mpl

5) Copy the wiki code into a new or existing wiki page

The conversion is far from perfect, but all that's really needed after the 
conversion is a lot of editing to make sure tags are correct. For example, 
Gmail left in all the <font> tags so I used search/replace to remove them. I 
also found that bold/italic tags were run together in some places so I had 
to manually separate or remove them as appropriate. Even with all the hand 
editing, it's still significantly easier than doing it from scratch by hand.

The most severe limitation I'm seeing is that wiki format isn't exactly the 
speed demon of the Internet; specifically, it's taking a couple minutes to 
save the NitrOS-9 Technical Reference using ScrewTurn Wiki on a fairly beefy 
server. Once it's saved, the resulting page opens relatively quickly. 
Unfortunately, I can't get the SourceForge to save the page yet. It keeps 
timing out the connection before it's finished.