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[grubstreet] Formatting wiki pages for printing

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: [grubstreet] Formatting wiki pages for printing
Date: 10:11 on 22 Nov 2002
I thought that it would be good if we could display a page without the header 
and footer, making it easier for people to print. Something like: 
http://grault.net/cgi-bin/grubstreet.pl?id=category_pubs&displaytype=print

The Everything engine has something similar, and you do get quite a lot of 
extraneous links and forms, which are useful when browsing, but not wanted when 
you print. Is this desirable for Grubstreet too?

I could look at doing a patch to usemod/wiki.pl or develop this as another 
separate standalone script like the search. Please let me have 
comments/feedback.

Also, I have discovered a nifty HTML/CSS trick. It is possible to add page 
throws inside an HTML document, which do not do anything special on display 
apart from a line break, but do a page break when printing. This would be 
really handy for large Grubstreet pages. We could add something into the Wiki 
markup via a patch, but I don't think this is necessary, as we can just use the 
raw HTML, as in <br class=page>.

Here is an example HTML page:

<html>
<head>
<title>Print Style Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
	br.page {page-break-after: always;}
</style>
</head>

<body>
This should print on the first page
<br>
This should also print on the first page
<br class=page>
And this on a second page !
</body>
</html>



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