Re: [website-dev] Collections, PDF

On 08/12/10 17:33, Benson Margulies wrote:
> Special:Collection and Special:Book say that there will be a 'box' on the
> left hand side of pages in which one can add that page to a collection. I
> never see the box. I'd like to PDF-up a slug of content.
> 
> is there something I'm missing? If all else fails, do you publish database
> dumps like wikipedia does?
> 

Hi Benson

(you're not subscribed to the website mailing list, so I've copied you 
on the reply)

What you're looking for is there.  Open any OOoWiki page.  On the left 
you see Navigation, Create a book, Toolbox, and sometimes also a section 
titled In other languages.

The only reason I can think of why you never see a box on the left for 
creating books is that you're using some Wiki skin other than the 
OOoWiki skin (this is a user preference setting).  If you're using the 
old Monobook skin... or one of the more simple skins, you could be 
missing out on functionality that is not supported in these other skins.

Creating a book is fairly simple.

Go to the first page you want to add to a book... click Add wiki page in 
the Create a book menu on the left.

You will now see two new links: Chow book and Clear book.

You can continue adding pages one by one by browsing to the specific 
page, or you can click Show book.

If you click Show book, save the book in your user space.  Here you can 
drag/drop pages and add chapter breaks in the book.

You can also directly edit the book after you've saved it by opening the 
new Wiki page that was created when you saved the book.


For an example of what the book syntax looks like take a look at this 
public book that was created for the BASIC Guide:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Collections/BASIC_Guide
The structure of the Book file is pretty simple.  You can directly edit 
your personal book (which you saved in your User space) adding pages 
using the same syntax.  This can be faster if you're trying to build 
larger complex books, and you know the Wiki page names in advance.... it 
saves you clicking through all the pages one at a time and adding them 
to the book.

I hope this gets you started with creating your own custom Wiki books.

C.
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Clayton Cornell       [email protected]
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead