Word2MediaWikiPlus Demo

This page was just a test for the now dead Word2MediaWikiPlus macro from beadsoft.de. Source code is still available from sourceforge. As of May 2020, the last revision was made in 2007-02-27, i.e. this should still work.

- 13:53, 5 May 2020 (CEST)

Demo-Document for the macro: Word2MediaWiki Plus

For Version 0.6d, Nov. 11, 2006

About this macro

Download this demo document including an installer here.

If you do have problems or ideas, do not hesitate to contact me: Word2MediaWikiPlus@beadsoft.de

To convert this document start the macro: Word2MediaWikiPlus or press this button:

< MediaWiki2WordPlus Converter found a non convertable object. >

No macro available? Check your safety settings in word and set it to "medium" (you find it in the macro menu under safety or similar, in german: Extras – Makro – Sicherheit).

What we can do:

Text formatting

This is colored text.

This is bold, italic, underlined, strike through and combined.

If you set convertFontSize=true then you get

Text in big letters.

Text in small letters.

But we consider only smaller than normal and bigger than normal, not its actual size.

You may have noticed the indention, too.

The macro recognizes manual line breaks
and puts a <br> into it.

But it will not

recognize single line breaks, as the Wiki-style will make a blank line in between.

Empty spacings in the beginning will be deleted, as they mean manual indention, which in my opinion should not be used.

We can make footnotes, too (needs cite extension).

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Tables

This is a complex table:

Heading	Heading	Heading	Heading
Text 1	Text2		Text4
Background colors	Background colors	Background colors
left	centered and colors and some blank lines	right	justified text is not supported by MediaWiki. I need to write a litte more in this cell so there is enough text to see the effects of justification
Merged cells horizontally	Horizontally merged		Merging has limitations!
Merged cells vertically 1	Vertically merged	nested tables: A B merged and right C   with text above and below	Merging has limitations!
Merged cells vertically 2

Lists

We can make simple lists

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

We can make simple numbered lists

1. List Item 1

2. List Item 2

3. List Item 3

Hyperlinks

Http-Links are easy to do: Link to MediaWiki Handbook and to the Word2MediaWikiPlus Hompage.

Here is a mail address: Word2MediaWikiPlus@beadsoft.de or like this mail me. If it does not work in your wiki, change you LocalSettings.php to accept mailto-references.

And a file reference, which will not work, unless you put it [file://C:\Temp\Word2MediaWiki_Demo_and_Macro.doc there]
(c:\temp\Word2MediaWiki_Demo_and_Macro.doc). The file name must not contain spaces.

File inclusion

There a number of ways to include a file within the document, these two are supported (they will just make a wiki-link, so you need to convert the contents separatly and put in the new article page):

1. As a reference:
File:Icon Word2MediaWikiPlus Demo 01.png

Word2MediaWikiPlus_Demo_Word Document 8 Object

2. As a file:
File:Icon Word2MediaWikiPlus Demo 02.png

Word2MediaWikiPlus_Demo_Word Document 8 Object

This of course can not be converted, so the macro just adds a link and the symbol as picture, which needs to be replaced later.

Pictures

This part of the macro will not work unless you (yes: you) customized it correctly!

The macro can convert pictures. It uses the MS Photo Editor. If you do not have it installed, you need to install it. You find it on your office CD. Run the installation routine an choose MS Photo Editor.

Included pictures are easy, but you need to customize the macro first.

• The picture will be extracted as png (Portable Networks Graphics).
• Optional: The pictures can be converted to png (use for screenshots), jpg (use for photos) or gif.
• Optional: if you can program, you may use your own converter, look in the code.
• Optional: The converted pictures can be automatically uploaded to your wiki.
• since both optional features use sendkeys, they might not work in your environment and must be customized

Example:

Sitting above the text:

More text below.

To Do: What the macro can not convert:

Text formatting

Colored text like this text. I think there is no way in html either.

Text which is indented (do you say so, meaning eingerückt in german)

And continues like this.

This is how it would work

Text which is indented (do you say so, meaning eingerückt in german)
And continues like this.

Different font types (names) are not converted.

Font spacing is not converted.

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Tables

Table features:

What we can’t do yet		text orientation (turned sideways)	not full width of table and table position
exact width of cells
frame-styles

Pictures

Some pictures, e.g. powerpoint slides, can not be extracted.

If you use Word 2002 or above the results will be better.

Lists

We can make nested lists (Word 2000 is difficult here, too)

1. List Item 1

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

2. List Item 2

1. or like this

2. fsfsf

3. sfsd

3. List Item 3

We can not do lists with blank lines, but we can do them by inserting the numbers "manually":

1. Special list

2. Second Item
With something to say.
Leave some blank.

3. Continue the list here

• maybe put some items here
• and more
  

4. End of list

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