On Sep 14, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Ira Abramov wrote:
indeed, people expect it to render correctly as they see it on the screen. People also expect it to at least render inteligably, but if you try this on a Hebrew Wiki (and I suppose Farsi and Arabic will not be different) you get your text left-justified and with many overlapping characters here and there. not a pretty sight.
May be a bug in the print stylesheet hard-coding alignment values without respect for right-to-left languages. Could you open a bug report at http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/ to make sure this gets fixed?
I like the "print magic" idea, but is it possible to have a setting to disable it?
No, nor should there be; MonoBook by itself would not print correctly and we need to include extra footers in the printed version for URLs etc.
However we may add the useless "printable version" link to MonoBook just because people seem unwilling to use "print preview". :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)