Brad Chapman wrote: > > During the BOSC/ISMB conference that Jeff and I were at last > week, I became a serious Wiki convert, and was thinking that Wiki might > be the solution to lots of documentation needs for Piper. Yeah, I like Wiki. I met with Gary yesterday, who is here in Boston, and told him about Wiki and said that we should install it on the server. > 1. It is a web only format, so it couldn't be distributed as pdf, > postscript, etc. I guess to get around this we would just need to have > someone put together documentation in a format like LaTeX once a Wiki > page got interesting enough to deserve it. Or, Wiki could just be > something that goes along with documentation. HTML can be converted to PostScript (I don't know about direct conversion, but you can save a web page as a PostScript file in Netscape for Unix), and PostScript can be converted to PDF. > 2. It could get messy if no one goes in and cleans it up every once in a > while. I suppose that is true of many things in life :-) Cheers. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. --