Posted by Klaus Brune on 09/14/06 23:26

In article <1157807615.619406.101520@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
Peter.H.M.Brooks@gmail.com says...
> 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.
>
>

I highly HIGHLY recommend WikkaWiki. What originally sold me on it is
the support for FreeMind MindMapping, but it has exellent support for
putting all kinds of source code (Perl, PHP, XML, HTML, Apache .htaccess
directives, and the list goes on) complete with syntax highlighting and
a button so people can "grab" (download) the code, plus you can force a
filename for the download, and enable/disable auto line numbering.

Here's the main site...

http://wikkawiki.org

And my own Wiki, for answering programming and web design questions
mainly...

http://www.gunthersoft.com/wiki


And I guess it's not TOO off topic, as WikkaWiki is PHP-driven, and
looking at the source code gives some great ideas for the architecture
of a large PHP application. And speaking of large, as far as Wikis go,
WikkaWiki is LIGHTWEIGHT, if that's an issue.

- Klaus

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