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We hope you find these tips interesting, useful, and occasionally fun. Most of the images are [[from old books -> http://www.fromoldbooks.org/]].
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We hope you find these tips interesting, useful, and occasionally fun. Most of the images are [[from old books -> http://www.fromoldbooks.org/]].
X:[[~John Rankin]]
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The [[Wikipublisher]] project started with the modest goal of turning wiki pages into a form suitable for printing -- to do a better job than you can with a `CSS print style-sheet, but not to set unrealistically high expectations. Over the 3 years of the project's life, we kept raising the bar for the output quality we expect, so that Wikipublisher can now produce results better than 99.9% of word processing documents. From a reader's point of view, this means documents which are consistently formatted, follow generally-accepted good layout practice, and avoid the common errors found in many documents. From the writer's perspective, (s)he can focus on writing and not worry too much about Web and print presentation.
A TipOfTheWeek goes out as an e-mail more or less once a week to the people who belong to the [[Wikipublisher(.) Discussion Group]]. This started as an extended form of [[Wikipublisher/FAQ]], to give detailed answers to questions which came up over and over again in e-mails to the project. We quickly discovered that the tips also generate new questions and stimulate requests for new features. Since they include examples of the capabilities they describe, they have revealed a number of bugs and mis-features, leading to many incremental improvements. Taken together, the tips are a handy reference and an alternative to the Wikipublisher/UserGuide.
The project illustrates the value of "standing on the shoulders of giants" to see farther than before. In particular we thank the following free software projects:
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The [[Wikipublisher]] project started with the modest goal of turning wiki pages into a form suitable for printing -- to do a better job than a `CSS print style-sheet, but not to set unrealistically high expectations. Since the project's start in 2005, we kept raising the bar for the output quality we expect, so that Wikipublisher now produces results better than 99.9% of word processing documents. From a reader's point of view, this means documents are consistently formatted, follow generally-accepted good layout practice, and avoid the common errors found in many documents. From the writer's perspective, (s)he can focus on writing and not worry too much about Web and print presentation.
A TipOfTheWeek goes out as an e-mail more or less once a week to the people who belong to the [[Wikipublisher(.) Discussion Group]]. This started as an extended form of [[Wikipublisher/FAQ]], to give detailed answers to questions which came up over and over again in [[Wikipublisher.Contact |e-mails]] to the project. We soon discovered that the tips generate new questions and stimulate requests for new features. Since they include examples of the capabilities they describe, they have revealed several bugs and mis-features, leading to many incremental improvements. The tips are a handy [[SelectedTips |reference source]] and an alternative to the Wikipublisher/UserGuide.
The project proves the value of "standing on the shoulders of giants" to see farther than before. In particular we thank the following free software projects:
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We hope you find these tips interesting, useful, and occasionally fun.
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We hope you find these tips interesting, useful, and occasionally fun. Most of the images are [[from old books -> http://www.fromoldbooks.org/]].
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A TipOfTheWeek goes out as an e-mail more or less once a week to the people who belong to the [[Wikipublisher(.) Discussion Group]]. This started as an extended form of [[Wikipublisher/FAQ]], to give detailed answers to questions which came up over and over again in e-mails to the project. We quickly discovered that the tips also generate new questions and stimulate requests for new features. Since they include illustrations of the capabilities they describe, they have revealed a number of bugs and mis-features, leading to many incremental improvements.
The project is a fine example of "standing on the shoulders of giants" see further than before. In particular we thank the following free software projects:
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A TipOfTheWeek goes out as an e-mail more or less once a week to the people who belong to the [[Wikipublisher(.) Discussion Group]]. This started as an extended form of [[Wikipublisher/FAQ]], to give detailed answers to questions which came up over and over again in e-mails to the project. We quickly discovered that the tips also generate new questions and stimulate requests for new features. Since they include examples of the capabilities they describe, they have revealed a number of bugs and mis-features, leading to many incremental improvements. Taken together, the tips are a handy reference and an alternative to the Wikipublisher/UserGuide.
The project illustrates the value of "standing on the shoulders of giants" to see farther than before. In particular we thank the following free software projects:
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* the [[Latex -> http://www.latex-project.org/]] document preparation system is still the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting
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* the [[Latex -> http://www.latex-project.org/]] document preparation system is still the state-of-the-art for computer typesetting
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The [[Wikipublisher]] project started with the modest goal of turning wiki pages into a form suitable for printing -- to do a better job than you can with a `CSS print style-sheet, but not to set unrealistically high expectations. Over the 3 years of the project's life, we kept raising the bar for the output quality we expect, so that Wikipublisher can now produce results better than 99.9% of word processing documents. From a reader's point of view, this means documents which are consistently formatted, follow generally-accepted good layout practice, and avoid the common errors found in many documents. From the writer's perspective, (s)he can focus on writing and not worry too much about Web and print presentation.
A TipOfTheWeek goes out as an e-mail more or less once a week to the people who belong to the [[Wikipublisher(.) Discussion Group]]. This started as an extended form of [[Wikipublisher/FAQ]], to give detailed answers to questions which came up over and over again in e-mails to the project. We quickly discovered that the tips also generate new questions and stimulate requests for new features. Since they include illustrations of the capabilities they describe, they have revealed a number of bugs and mis-features, leading to many incremental improvements.
The project is a fine example of "standing on the shoulders of giants" to see further than before. In particular we thank the following free software projects:
* the [[PmWiki -> http://www.pmwiki.org/]] engine provided a markup-agnostic way of transforming wiki markup into `XML
* the [[Latex -> http://www.latex-project.org/]] document preparation system is still the state-of-the-art in computer typesetting
* the [['''t'''book -> http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/]] authoring project provided a way to transform `XML into Latex
We hope you find these tips interesting, useful, and occasionally fun.