I also print one or more specific tiddlers this way.
A request: sounds like you know what you're doing w.r.t. CSS and TW.
Would you mind making your full custom CSS available as an example (for me)?
-- David
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021, 05:15 Jon Light <jonlightbou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In response to a slight offtopic on the thread "Issue with PrintRiver
> plugin" I thought it was worth mentioning other methods of printing
> Tiddlers.
>
> I took a fairly simple approach as follows.
>
> - I simply find the tiddler of interest and use the existing Tool item
> PRINT.
> - This prints the whole page which equates to the story river
> - I therefore use the pull down from the Tiddler menu "Close Others"
> now I have only one tiddler in the Story River - then I print - very quick
> and fuss free as long as you like the existing defaults on what actually
> gets printed.
>
> Its an easy sequence.
>
> Subsequent "fussy" refinements....
>
> I preferred to print tags with tiddler so my custom CSS contains @media
> statements for printer specific CSS which include making tags in the
> tiddler visible for the print.
>
> I also like to use CSS floats to place text to one side of the other of
> images, the problem is that page breaks and images are difficult when
> printing.
>
> The browser may make the decision to move an image to the next side of
> paper but still allows the floated text that should appear alongside the
> image to appear instead on the previous side - kind of ignoring that the
> image got bumped to the next page.
>
> I added extra CSS to my Custom CSS tiddler for this situation
>
> @media print { blockquote.CLEARP { page-break-after: always; } }
> @media screen { blockquote.CLEARP { clear: both; display:block; border:
> 0px solid #ddd; }}
>
> This means when I preview the print out I can add blockquotes with class
> CLEARP to force a new page for the printed version. - crude but it works
> ok, I only use floats in tiddler articles over which I have lavished a bit
> of Tender Loving Care so I am happy to spend the time preparing the print
> in these cases.
>
> I must revisit the PrintRiver Plugin sometime - I parted company with it
> because the problems I experienced with reveal before a kind soul on this
> forum suggested I use the detail tag.
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