[Mediawiki-l] printing external link as [url text] control

[revansx at cox.net]

beauty aey!

---- Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r at gmail.com> wrote: 
> The stylesheet used in printing is commonPrint.css - changing that should do
> what you want.
> 
> On the way there, you should be able to specify '&printable=yes' in the URL
> to see that version instead.
> 
> For example, here's mediawiki.org's home page:
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
> 
> -or-
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki
> 
> And here's the printable equivalent:
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki&printable=yes
> 
> -- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
> 
> On 5/8/07, revansx at cox.net <revansx at cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I have searched the archives and could not find a resolution to the
> > following issue:
> >
> > The printable page for all my articles where I format external links does
> > not format as I would like it to.
> >
> > For example, if I include the following wiki markup:
> >
> > Click [
> > http://www.big.long.complicated.URL?on=the&net=with%20lots%20of&Post%20DataHERE]
> >
> > it looks like this in my article:
> >
> > Click HERE
> >
> > but, when I try to print it... looks more like this:
> >
> > Click HERE (
> > http://www.big.long.complicated.URL?on=the&net=with%20lots%20of&Post%20Data
> > )
> >
> > My suspicion is..., that it was purposely decided to behave this way so
> > that a hard-copy would not loose any embedded information (Simple "Click
> > HERE" looses its meaning on a print out).
> >
> > However, I am hoping that there is a way to control this behavior?
> > please advise...
> >
> > fyi, I am stuck with mediawiki v1.6.10.
> > Thanks!
> > - rich (revansx)
> >
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