Posted by larry on 09/09/06 17:33

Peter.H.M.Brooks@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking for a good (ideally free), system for quite a big writing
> job. There will be some collaboration, but it is mainly on one system.
>
> I am keen to have easy to use indexing and cross-referencing as well as
> excellent backup and recovery of data. I've looked at a few wiki
> systems and they seem quite good, but don't support all that much
> formatting.
>
> I know things must have changed a lot in the last couple of years since
> I last looked into this in detail.
>
> Can you give me any pointers? I'm mainly using a Mac.

Wikis were designed to be fast and simple, and also the documents more
or less portable so they don't go into much typographioc styling (this
is also a limitation of displaying with HTML, which does not support
tabs and the like.). But a Wiki is an excellent place to do the bulk
of the writing and editing and trhen finish by transporting to a more
versattile system.

As for shopping for Wikis, look at the Wiki Matrix, you can compare
features of many of the popular Wikis.

http://www.wikimatrix.org/

Larry

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