Gentoo Website -> Printable Online Documentation

RockHound

Hi,

just tried to print some of the documentation that is online and my problem is it looks like crap if i just print it. Copy & Paste on the other hand works really great, but who wants to do that. Since all of your docs are xml, wouldn't it be possible to make a xld and then offer the user a printable version of the docs?

Would be really cool! Gentoo rocks!

klieber · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:34 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a great feature to have. Maybe you could write the xld and submit it to bugs.gentoo.org

--kurt
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RockHound · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 9:58 am Post subject:

proxy · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 10:50 am Post subject:

my experience with this is that if the site is constructed properly (as per w3 recomendations), a "printable version" should be as simple as disabling style sheets.

I have done this in the past, it may be worth taking a look at how the sites data is structured in the html, it would be really nice, if they they set things up such that content is truely seperate from layout

(i do however love the idea of a nice clean printable version of all the docs)

proxy

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

Hint: Create your own XSLT stylesheet and apply to the preferred XML doc...

Goto www.gentoo.org/dyn/arch/ and download the tarball. You'll find a snapshot of the website minus the dyn directory.