Question

Hi,

how is it possible to see a twiki topic (in a formatted way, not as source) without having twiki installed?

I mean does it exist a twiki viewer, a twiki firefox plugin, or a twiki to html converter?

thanks.

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-- CatiaLavalle - 10 Apr 2008

Answer

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TWiki 4.2 comes with tml2html.pl (in the tools/ directory). It uses the TWiki:Plugins/WysiwygPlugin to do the conversion, so it may not work that well on earlier releases. It also means you would have to have TWiki installed to use it...

Depending on your scenario, you might prefer to batch generate documents in more readable format ahead of time (e.g., with TWiki:Plugins/GenPDFAddOn, to generate a PDF file), or install TWiki on the client for live rendering (e.g,. TWiki:Codev/TWikiForWindowsPersonal or TWiki:Codev/TWikiOnMemoryStick).

-- SeanCMorgan - 14 Apr 2008

This does not really resolve my problem since, as you already say, it works only with twiki installed, and I do not have it. If I would have had twiki running the best for my purposes would have been: open the topic in twiki-> printable -> print to pdf. Actually I do not care in which format I do see the twiki topic I just want to see it formatted without twiki running. I can not imagine that there is no way to get this! Any further idea?

-- CatiaLavalle - 23 Apr 2008

According to Plugins, "An add-on runs separately from the TWiki scripts, e.g. for data import, export to static HTML, etc. Add-Ons normally do not call any TWiki code directly, though may invoke TWiki scripts." (emphasis added).

It sounds like that might do the trick. Unfortunately the list of add-ons doesn't seem to have an add-on that actually generates static HTML files.

Perhaps your company could sponsor one of the developers around here could write it? I suspect it would be a matter of repackaging tml2html + WysiwygPlugin and an engine to run them on (Perl + a web server, e.g., http://www.uniformserver.com/).

-- SeanCMorgan - 23 Apr 2008

That is not possible, because what "renders" twiki topics is just the web browser, twiki just translate the topics written in twiki formatting language. But you may find usefull just have the view script in your computer, (but even that would use a couple of other files that are needed by view script.

-- MarcoSilva - 23 Apr 2008

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to re-open if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jun 2008