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.zieboll@???> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:05:44 -0800
> > Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:
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> > > Quoting Haines Brown (haines@???):
> > >
> > > > 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
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