Greetings!
We are moving the contents of what has historically been a print manual into a wiki; this is a style manual for regulation writers in Utah State Government. Is it possible to print the full contents of the wiki in something approaching book form? My director would like this, if possible.
Thanks,
Mike
Not sure about MediaWiki but one of the projects I manage used TWiki to develop a funding proposal (http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/AG2/AGtwoProposal) which I then converted to a pdf 'book' (http://wiki.astrogrid.org/pub/AG2/WebHome/AG2-double.pdf) using HTMLDoc (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) and a tweaked print stylesheet for the wiki. Only drawback is that you have to manually add each page URL to the book definition but it ought to be possible to program that somehow if you've a lot of pages.
Turned out quite good.
Cheers, Tony.
Mike Broschinsky wrote:
Greetings!
We are moving the contents of what has historically been a print manual into a wiki; this is a style manual for regulation writers in Utah State Government. Is it possible to print the full contents of the wiki in something approaching book form? My director would like this, if possible.
Thanks,
Mike _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:04 am, Mike Broschinsky wrote:
We are moving the contents of what has historically been a print manual into a wiki; this is a style manual for regulation writers in Utah State Government. Is it possible to print the full contents of the wiki in something approaching book form? My director would like this, if possible.
Thanks to the miracle of XHTML[1], in at least the monobook skin (and probably the others), the printable version of the page is the page you're looking at. If you print it, it's formatted for printing instead of what you see on the screen. See your window system's Print Preview function for comparison.
Hope this helps.
[1] If we can do it, why can't all those other content management systems do it?
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:24:40 -0800, Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org wrote:
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:04 am, Mike Broschinsky wrote:
We are moving the contents of what has historically been a print manual into a wiki; this is a style manual for regulation writers in Utah State Government. Is it possible to print the full contents of the wiki in something approaching book form? My director would like this, if possible.
Thanks to the miracle of XHTML[1], in at least the monobook skin (and probably the others), the printable version of the page is the page you're looking at. If you print it, it's formatted for printing instead of what you see on the screen. See your window system's Print Preview function for comparison.
Yes, but that only works for a page at a time. There doesn't seem to be a feature that allows the whole wiki to be printed at once. I was trying to make a PDF of the contents of my own wiki and ran into the same problem: I could tell Acrobat to crawl Special:Allpages, but Acrobat's inept with Unicode, among other things; printing to Distiller from the browser gives better results, but is tedious as each page has to be distilled separately first (even with MSIE's print all pages linked feature).
*Muke!
Mike Broschinsky wrote:
Greetings!
We are moving the contents of what has historically been a print manual into a wiki; this is a style manual for regulation writers in Utah State Government. Is it possible to print the full contents of the wiki in something approaching book form? My director would like this, if possible.
I believe the 'seagull' project [1] has this capability, although seagull is an application framework with a databased content management system, not a wiki. In other words, you can load up the seagull CMS with articles, and then print the collection as a unit. Anyone interested in adding similar functionality to mediawiki could look at how they do it.
just my .02 pecuniary units.
hth,
Greg
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