Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-30 Thread Robert Brockway
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA wrote: > I guess my question boils down too: is there a "good" way to convert Word > into a wiki format? I've researched this too and am yet to find a good method. > Has anyone found any particularly good wiki software? Currently so

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-19 Thread C.M. Connelly
"JJ" == Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA JJ> And as already mentioned, Word adds in A LOT of JJ> other code. I've had reasonable luck in using Mac OS X's TextEdit to do cleaner conversions to HTML. TextEdit can open Word docs nativelyy, and save as HTML. You can specify the d

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread Dave Kempe
- "Hugh Brown" wrote: > You might want to have a look at Confluence > (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/). We use it at $WORK > and so far I've found the ACLs easy enough to work with...though for > the most part, our wiki is more open than closed. The latest version > supports w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA
he document should things change...and it's still not searchable (well, partially). -Original Message- From: John BORIS [mailto:jbo...@adphila.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:26 PM To: 'Shrdlu'; 'Lopsa Discussion'; Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA J

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread John BORIS
arch 17, 2010 12:55 PM To: Lopsa Discussion Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED) Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA wrote: > As yet, I've not found a good way to convert the Word stuff yet. Copying > and pasting is turning into a disaster sin

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA
code. -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Shrdlu Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:55 PM To: Lopsa Discussion Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED) Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread Shrdlu
Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA wrote: > As yet, I've not found a good way to convert the Word stuff yet. Copying > and pasting is turning into a disaster since quite a bit of these documents > are either step by step ordered lists or have many screenshots and/or tables > involved. > >

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread John BORIS
Having worked for the Defense Department and now at $work I have always had to work on the "free" side to get things accomplished. At both places I have used Word Processing documents to handle documentation as it was the only tool that everyone had. At $work I inherited a ton of documentation writ

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread Hugh Brown
Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA disturbed my sleep to write: > Has anyone found any particularly good wiki software? Currently so far I've > tried quite a few, but none seem to quite meet what I'd like (ie. Screwturn > wiki allows for ACL's, but they are awkward to handle and their categ

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to improve documentation habits (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-17 Thread Johnson, Jonathon W Mr CTR USA TRADOC USA
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, da...@lang.hm wrote: > I would like to add to this that when you don't have good documentation to > start with, one of the best ways of keeping things in that state is to be > overly picky about the format of the documentation. On a