At 10:38 AM 7/8/01 -0800, Chris Lott wrote:
>What kind of methods have any of you used for storing text that needs to be
>displayed as both multi-page (for reading) and single-page (for printing)?
>My plan is to store the articles with basic HTML formatting that will render
>based on the site stylesheet(s).
>
>I'm using MySQL.
>
>My main question is how to deal with the multiple pages. Higher-ups would
>prefer that article authors not have to split the file into various fields
>when composing. My idea is to have the authors insert a code/comment that
>indicates a page break in the text (something like, cryptically,
><PAGEBREAK>) and then when pulling the article from the DB, create a menu
>for selecting pages (there has to be a small menu at the bottom of each
>article with a link to each article page and an indication where the user
>is), display the proper page, etc.
>
>I've still not got my head completely around how I am going to do this, so I
>am looking for suggestions on how other sites manage this need.
Why not just split on the newlines? You could conceivably, say that you
will limit yourself to 5 newlines (paragraphs) per page. T
John Meyer
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