On 03/05/06, Adrian Buehlmann <ligulem(a)pobox.com> wrote:
It's a rather suboptimal idea anyway what you are
doing. Why do you want
to include several full fledged articles like [[en:Berlin]] and [[en:London]]
into the same page? This won't work anyway.
This is an editorial issue, not a technical one.
The technical problem you beleive to have is just a hint that you
are trying to fit a square pig into a round hole :-)
I'm trying to produce a WikiReader the
SimplestWayThatCouldPossiblyWork. Doing it this way actually gets damn
close. By using the printable version, you can basically define a
simple structure that transcludes other pages, then print it out, and
you grab a whole set of pages on a useful topic in one hit.
My concern with the actual WikiReader project is that there's a lot of
human intervention required to produce each pdf, which probably
explains why only 2 have actually been released - and of course
they're both out of sync with the actual Wikipedia version. By keeping
it live, you always have the latest version - and there is no human
intervention required whatsoever.
I think it's not so much fitting a square peg into a round hole, as
trying to soup up a lawn mower to compete with race cars. Sure, it's
not going to win, but how fast can we get this baby to go?
BTW you do also have problems with the coordinates on the top right.
They are written over each other. So this looks rather bad.
It's not *that* bad. I haven't gotten around to investigating what's
causing that mess :)
Anyway, it's now bug #5810.
Steve