Somehow we got landed with GForge for all our collaboration needs: subversion-based CM, trouble ticketing, and *cough* wiki. I had to caveat the "wiki" appellation, as, unusually for a wiki, GForge doesn't understand wiki markup. At least the way ours is installed, you must use the well-named WYSIWYG "FCKeditor".
And WYG is truly appalling. I mean, it's not as if CSS is particularly difficult (well, it is, but that's a matter for another post). The default stylesheet GForge comes with is about as appealing as a child's charcoal drawing left out in the rain. They pulled in the kerning and leading until adjoining text is virtually juxtaposed, then made all the fonts tiny (even headers), made everything a dull gray-black, then chose an ugly typeface. Oh, while disabling all the things that make wikis useful, like auto-TOC and templates.
Did I mention GForge is a commercial product? You actually have to *pay* to take an old (1.4) version of Subversion, Bugzilla, and a wiki actually *worse* than SharePoint, then roll them up and hide them under an ugly stylesheet.
Which is where Stylish comes in, at least putting some makeup on the pig so you can pretend you're using better tools. Knowing of course that the users who are reading your documentation likely DON'T have Stylish installed, and so believe you're to blame for producing such banal crud.
*sigh*
(I did tell you this blog was going to be a whinge, mind...)
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