Category:HelloXenProjectBook

Credits

This book was originally contributed by Mohsen Mostafa Jokar (see e-mail thread that includes a PDF) with the intention to become a book that others can contribute to and evolve over time.

Converting chapters

Prerequisites

• Install a Linux distribution which contains LibreOffice's MediaWiki export function (e.g. openSUSE, Fedora, some versions of Debian)
• Download the the attachment from [1]

Workflow

Chose the chapter that you want to convert. You can do this in one of two ways

• Convert the entire document and delete the portions of the generated mark-up that are not part of the chapter you want to add
• Use the Working with Master Documents and Subdocuments to split the document into subsections
• Run the generated markup through www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/strip-tag or similar, otherwise the markup will contain unnecessary html
• Fix up the mark-up (see below)
• Add images (see below)
• Repeat and rinse until correct

Preparing the generated markup

Before you create the page, copy the chapter into your favourite editor. I observed that several things tend to go wrong

• Some of the bulleting does not get converted correctly: you may find special characters being created such as "•" and "• " (sometimes in different sizes). You may need to replace "•" with "* ", etc.
• Tables tend to be generated poorly, but ultimately they are OK. If you want them to look pretty, remove any style="..." elements (you can use replace the style strong with "") and make sure table headers start with "!". In addition you may want to add have the table begin with

  {| class="prettytable"

• Special characters such as ticks or crosses get to converted wrongly: they will end up as "x". You will have to fix these up manually. Check out [2] for suggestions
• Images tend to get generated as

[[Image:|top]]

==== Figure 2: ... ====

To fix this you can use search and replace to get something like

[[Image:|top|Figure 2: ... ]]

After that, replace "[[Image:|top|" with "[[Image:XXX.png|600px|none|thumb|" - this ensures that images are the same size and you can search for XXX.png

• Headlines do not always come across correctly. You may need to do some editing there.
• At the bottom of the page, add

[[Category:Users]] [[Category:HelloXenProjectBook]]

Creating the page

If you add chapter X, then create a page called

• Book/HelloXenProject/X-Chapter

  and copy the content in
• Go to preview and check how it looks
• Fix up any remaining issues
• Then save

Adding images