[Pmwiki-users] Bibliographies
Rick Lavin
ricklavin2001
Fri Sep 17 00:43:57 CDT 2004
Having tried out a host of php-based wikis over the last few months, I
have to conclude that PmWiki is the clear all-round winner for several
reasons, not least of which is its incorporation of linearity and
hierarchy without losing its wiki soul.
There is just one feature that appears to me to be missing: handling
bibliographies. It hadn't occurred to me that this could be done in a
wiki until I came across UniWakkaWiki:
<http://www.istitutocolli.org/uniwakka/HomePage> and <
http://www.istitutocolli.org/uniwakka/BiblioTest>. I'm wondering
whether there's any prospect of this functionality being brought into
PmWiki. It would seem to fit into the long-term goal of making PmWiki
into a publishing tool, in addition to all the other things it can do.
And as a practical thing, a lot of academics spend a lot of their time
dealing with references, and it would be a major help if we could deal
with them together with the text we write.
> With the advent PmWiki 2, I now have a long term goal of adding a
> 'Typeset' button to a trail page and turning wiki markup directly into
> TeX. This would then allow anyone with a web browser to publish a book.
> Which may or may not be a good thing.
I don't know how popular this kind of feature would be, but I would be
delighted to see it.
Rick
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