Erik Moeller wrote:
for exporting MediaWiki pages as PDF files, and
improving
document management for documents consisting of multiple pages.
[...]
c) Create a "PDF basket" UI which makes it possible to compile a PDF
from multiple pages easily (and rearrange the pages in a hierarchy).
Things to throw into this basket are Wikisource and Wikibooks.
These projects currently consist of thousands of "pages", but
there is no way to separate a "book" (or title or volume) from the
rest of the site. For example, at
download.wikimedia.org I can
download the entire French Wikisource in XML, but I cannot
download the XML (or PDF) for just one of the books there.
If I'm lucky, all wiki pages (facsimile pages or chapters) that
belong to one book are subpages of a single page, or all have page
names that begin with a common prefix, but the current Mediawiki
software doesn't help in maintaining this integrity. Clicking
around to manually fill a PDF basket would be a nightmare.
Of course, for a Wikisource book with scanned images, I'd like
these printed in the PDF. But the OCR text would be used for
searching through the PDF.
As far as I know, the ProofreadPage extension (the Page:
namespace) doesn't support a grouping or table of contents of all
pages belonging to a book. This would be a useful next step.
The resulting structures could potentially also be
stored as wikitext,
using a new <structure> extension tag, so that they can be used both
by individuals compiling PDFs for personal use, and by groups
collaborating on complex documents.
This could be it.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se