I hope the title says it all. (even after changing it !)
I have found, for example, this basic editing link but I would like to be able to create and test all my content on my netbook and just upload the final finished product.
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Edit. The original title was How can I create Playground pages offline and then upload the finished product?
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You need to run at least a HTTP Server on your netbook. There is a easy way to do it with Windows OS.
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Standalone
You can run PmWiki on USB Flash Drive
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiOnAStick
Once you finished setting up your PmWiki server its easy to do what you want.
Thanks @omersiar - I will look into that.
Do you know is there an easy way to upload the finished product to the Arduino Playground or is it just a case of copy and paste each page.
Also, do you know if there is a Wysiwig editor - or a way, for example, to convert an Open Office document to PMWiki?
I guess what I am really hoping to be able to do is to have the exact same document in two different formats drawn from a single original. Trying to keep two separate versions in sync is a nightmare.
I'm using Linux, by the way.
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It's going to be like just copy your source to Playground editor. And yes this is really annoying you need to edit separate versions for each word processor. I don't have a solution for that. I just simply wrote my writings in plain text, for eyes its ugly but compatible for all word processors.
And for linux you need PHP and Apache Server, Install them from your package manager
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/RunningPmwikiOnMageiaLinux#Offline
Thanks. I have had a looked at the PMWiki website and it all just looks to be too much trouble. I have some stuff that may be of interest to other Arduino users but I'm not taking the trouble to learn a new markup language just so I can publish it.
I seem to remember running into this issue on another Forum as well.
I can't figure why people, who want contributions to their website, put silly obstacles in the way. Why not just use HTML which can easily be generated by programs like Open Office. Or why not just use the limited subset of HTML (or pseudo HTML) that is used when you post directly into the forum.
I think I might change the title of the Thread to "Too much trouble to create stuff for the Playground"
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Once I cheated and copied styles from other Playgrounds to edit some pages 
Robin2:
I can't figure why people, who want contributions to their website, put silly obstacles in the way. Why not just use HTML which can easily be generated by programs like Open Office. Or why not just use the limited subset of HTML (or pseudo HTML) that is used when you post directly into the forum.
Unfortunately, HTML is too powerful to let people just dump it into web pages. Even "simple HTML" can cause problems, e.g. if a tag is not closed. BBcode and wiki markup were developed for very good reasons, not to prevent people adding content! In fact, it is the minimum needed to allow user content in the first place.
I agree though it makes it very hard to add good content, particularly as there are several different flavours. Generally I don't spend time editing wikis for those reasons.
There doesn't appear to be any offline wysiwyg editing tools, let alone good ones. Gwennel Web shows some promise, but it doesn't work with Arduino playground or another wiki I tried.
I think I can write a converter to convert HTML from LibreOffice to markup, it adds an extra step but might be better than nothing. Microsoft have a Mediawiki plugin for Office, I guess that a similar thing could be done for Open/LibreOffice but I wouldn't know where to start with that.
bobcousins:
I think I can write a converter to convert HTML from LibreOffice to markup, it adds an extra step but might be better than nothing.
Thanks for your info.
I suspect creating a HTML to markup converter would not be easy but it should be extremely useful. The many flavours may be a problem.
Please don't take on this interesting task just for me 
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