Posted by Peter.H.M.Brooks on 09/09/06 17:48

larry@portcommodore.com wrote:
> 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/
>
Thank you for that!

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