On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 02:32:35PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:22:43 +0100 > Florian Zieboll <f.zieb...@web.de> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:05:44 -0800 > > Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > > > > > Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > > > > > > > Your instruction are in HTML format, and so naturally in Firefox I > > > > clicked to Save as PDF. In fact, most of my work on line uses that > > > > facility. But in your instruction I could not find any reference > > > > to it. Any hope for me? > > > > > > Set up cups-pdf. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cups-pdf > > > > > > Why not save as plain html? Steves files display nicely, entirely w/o > > stylesheets. > > Wow, it does render pretty well without linuxlibrary.css: I'm surprised. > > But Haines is right: With a failed link to linuxlibrary.css, some of > the page becomes ambiguous. For instance, see the top of the section > called "Installing Tabbed". The first line says "NOTE:", and then > paragraphs follow. With linuxlibrary.css enabled, "NOTE:" becomes a > title in a colored box, and the first and only first paragraph is > inside that box. Without the CSS, you don't know where the note stops > and the body text begins. > > With the CSS, every line or sequence of lines with source code shows in > a light blue box, for more instant recognizeability. Another example: > In the section called "Integrating Tabbed and Surf With Other > Programs", the second paragraph is the word "Danger!". Without CSS, > it's just followed by a bunch of paragraphs: What the heck does > "Danger!" mean? With the CSS, the word "Danger!" is the centered title > of a garishly colored, impossible to miss box, and the following > paragraph is the text of what's dangerous. The CSS is necessary for > clarity of purpose. > > I don't know why Haines needs a local copy at all (Internet not > available sometimes?), but if he does, HTML sans linuxlibrary.css > doesn't just lose pretty, it also loses some meaning and clarity. That > meaning would be better preserved by conversion of the web version to > PDF, and printing to a CUPS printer would probably do just what's > needed for a local copy.
Can't you just have a local copy of linuxlibrary.css as well? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
