[Mediawiki-l] Printable Version?

[Breck Yunits]

can someone hack the monobook skin to make the print button available?
or can someone give me basic instruction so i could try it?


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:17:23 -0700, jt.thomas at verizonwireless.com
<jt.thomas at verizonwireless.com> wrote:
> One thing to consider,
> 
> I find that the 'printable view' is useful for things *other* than printing
> - i.e. screen captures. I find the omission of this function from the
> monobook skin to be regretable.
> 
> Of course admins and poweruser's can be informed to switch skins, but the
> casual user is unlikely to make the distinction. Of course the installation
> can be modified to use an alternate skin as the default - but monobook is
> *much more* attractive IMHO.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> JT
> 
> ===
> You said:
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> 
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:06:02 +0100
> From: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Printable Version?
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> Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > > OK, for my next dumb question ~
> > > Does anyone know what and how to hack my wiki to show a "printable
> version"
> > > option on my pages in monobook?
> >
> > I thought that was called the "classic" skin.  Am I wrong?
> 
> The Classic skin, I believe, had/has a link to a special "Print
> Version" of each article. The MonoBook skin, by using CSS, simply
> tells the browser to print the page differently than it displays it.
> This is of course rather more "magic" than most users expect...
> 
> --
> Rowan Collins BSc
> [IMSoP]
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