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Re: Thinking about Print

Sohail Mirza — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:39:42 -0000

If one could get all the content into a single page, you may find that to be very useful when used in combination with the technique outlined in this List Apart article:

http://www.alistapart.com/a...

It describes the process they used to publish a book from HTML/CSS source. I'm not sure if this is entirely relevant to what you're attempting to do, but you may find it helpful.

Re: Thinking about Print

Luke — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:55:24 -0000

Thank's for thinking this way!
I'm really in need for an offline version of the MDCWiki, since i'm developing in the Mozilla context but rarely have the opportunity to log on to thw i-net. Please notify me (by email, or via your blog which i'm tracking ;-)) as soon as you got any solution. I would be pleased to help with testing and would also use it in any alpha state.
Sadly though :-( i do not know any solution for the problem.

Keep up the thinking!

Re: Thinking about Print

James — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:05:37 -0000

Yeah, Rough Cuts was what I was thinking of.

Re: Thinking about Print

dria — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:55:11 -0000

That's definitely another possibility. I started thinking about what would be required to dump a static version of each language wiki this morning, actually. Thanks for the link.

Re: Thinking about Print

Sylvain — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:49:42 -0000

What about having something similar to Wikipedia database download?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

They provide dumps of mediawiki, so that users can use them for offline browsing or printing maybe.

They also have a tool which can convert from the dumps to static html pages (which seems to be specific to wikipedia, though).

Re: Thinking about Print

dria — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:24:35 -0000

James: do you mean the new "Rough Cuts" book series, or something else? If something else, could you give me a URL where I can get more information? Thanks :)

Re: Thinking about Print

James — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:16:05 -0000

O'Reilly are doing something like this with their early preview stuff - maybe you could talk to them?

Re: Thinking about Print

Rafael — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:36:06 -0000

Jimmy Wales is thinking about this now as he's trying to do the same thing for wikipedia, as text books for kids. We can probably ask him what he's doing. And I don't know what's worse, you thinking about this on a Friday or evening, or me responding...and thinking about Firefox marketing in football terms.