MoinMoin: FormatterMarket

See also CategoryMarket and especially ParserMarket. For Help on using formatters see ApplyingFormatters.

Offers

This is a marketplace for your formatters. Please state your name, your email, and the release your formatter is developed for.

Use a special pagename ["formatter/YourFormatter.py"] and start your formatter with the line

#format python

This way, the formatter can directly be put on the page without any modification, and as easily copied from that page.

Or you can also simply upload your source code as an attachment to this page, and then use "attachment:YourFormatter.py" to link to it.

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Requests

If you are not familiar with Python and/or the MoinMoin code base, but have a need or an idea for a formatter, this is the place to ask for it. Someone might find it useful, too, and implement it.

An option to export the entire wiki to a single PDF document would be a killer APP

This would make it easy to archive the wiki at the end of a project or send a static copy via email.

Why not use ReportLab to create PDF output, instead of calling other applications (at great cost I suppose).

• -- RobertSeeger 2005-10-07 10:27:08 I currently have an intern working on exactly this - a formatter using reportlab to produce good PDF, to be used as part of a MoinMoin export utility (based on moin_dump). He will also finalize my experimental MS Word formatter - this uses MS Word application scripting (in Python, not VBA) as a 'side effect' and handles tables, links, images etc. quite well. Stay tuned or contact me if you are interested. At the moment we need a number of core patches including a slightly different "wiki for export" parser, this is why I haven't published it yet. Feel free to contact me if you want to get it in. Please do it as early as possible if you want to change core files because merging will be easier than. I am sure that the MoinMoin community will benefit a lot. -- AlexanderSchremmer 2005-10-07 10:46:50 -- RobertSeeger 2005-10-07 14:45:19 This is part of a larger export issue that I have been working on from time to time starting with 1.1. - see RobertSeeger. The current system has a lot of core patches for a lot of things and I have to find the minimum necessary subset of those for this particular feature. I'm also still busy analyzing the changes in the parser and formatter from 1.1. to 1.3.5 - it is much cleaner now with the open and close and probably many of my variations are no longer necessary. The main issue in 1.1. was that I needed a parser that really finds every word and character even if it is "unformatted", because I need to find those in the formatter for the "side effect" if I do not have a plain text output. I also do not yet have a proper user interface for the export tool - at the moment it must be run from a CMD on the server, thus you need to have direct access to the server.

I have put the whole stuff "as-is" to RobertSeeger/MoinExporter (apart from the PDF formatter itself, this will follow soon), this is for 1.3.5. -- RobertSeeger 2005-10-21 00:46:57

The moinPdf formatter I've posted creates that exactly. It's similar to the GenPDFAddOn plugin for TWiki as it requires htmldoc. It's a good start but I'm sure there's a lot of space for improvement. -- GeraldManipon 2006-11-02 04:03:00

* RTF

• Why script MS Word instead of generating RTF? That's plain text (for some definition of "plain") and the transform could be run on any platform. -- FredDrake 2005-10-07 13:32:25 -- RobertSeeger 2005-10-07 14:45:19I do not know enough about RTF (looks very TeX to me ) to create a formatter, but this is certainly possible. I need something that produces 100% Word with tables, links, automatic TOC etc. and uses a given Word stylesheet. AFAIK the RTF contains a lot of explicit Font and low-level formatting. We will also check for a commercial tool ( http://www.textcontrol.com) that can be scripted to create Word, PDF, RTF, HTM... RTF looks very TeXish on first glance, but I reality is a bit simpler at a low level. There are far fewer "magic" characters. (I just wrote a text extraction tool for RTF, and it didn't take long to pull things apart and extract Unicode text.) I don't know about the ability to use external stylesheets. -- FredDrake 2005-10-07 14:57:59 Hi Folks. I'm heavily interested in this, thought about programming something like that (pdf-exporter) -- KlausHeinisch 2005-10-07 14:13:00 Google is your friend - PyRTF -- TimCera 2005-10-07 17:15:40 It may be my friend, but I don't want to dive into RTF right now, we will probably use [^http://www.textcontrol.com TX Text Control ActiveX] in the future to handle DOC,RTF,PDF... all in one formatter (unfortunately this is Windows only and rather expensive). -- RobertSeeger 2005-10-21 00:46:57

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This list contains formatters that are now part of the standard distribution, possibly with a (slightly) different implementation.