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Subject:Re: The Swiss Army Knife of Collaborative Writing From:Richard Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:09:21 -0700
My favorite Scroll add-on is the DocBook exporter. We used that for a book about Confluence and we are currently using it for a book series on Content Strategy. It does a nice job letting authors write in the wiki using the standard Confluence editor, then export DocBook XML.
The guys at k15t (the company that develops those exporters) have done a really nice job, including adding some features based on our feedback from the Confluence book.
Best regards,
Richard
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On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> The export and versioning add-ons from Scroll make Confluence far more
> suitable for documentation than any other wiki I've found, and I think
> I've looked at all of the ones that are remotely plausible.
>
> Confluence's biggest weakness is that it's too hard to get existing
> content in. It has a Word import but some serious bugs that require a
> lot of cleanup.
>
> If MadCap integrated Flare with Confluence, now that could be a killer app.
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> Strongly second Robert's suggestion of confluence or some other wiki. "Collaborative living documents" is exactly what wikis are designed for. Confluence is especially nice because you can export from it easily into PDF or word when it's time to ship.
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