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Proposal: require javascript

Please make it possible, that javascript is not needed to use this nice service. Thanks!

Added it to their bug tracker.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 23:41, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Bug is fixed. Jbeigel (talk) 15:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Question: Quiz

Is there a way to use the quiz together with collections? For example: it would be nice if the software could show the answers that are in the quiz code in a section after the exercises... But until now, even the questions are not displayed correctly... Helder 00:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

As far as I know the quiz extension is not supported by wikibooks. If it was, you should be able to use the standard tricks to have a different on-screen and print version, i.e. <includeonly> and <noinclude> if you use the traditional print version approach and substitution templates if you use collections. --Martin Kraus (talk) 13:31, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I didn't realize that it is not enabled here... I use it at pt.wikibooks. I'm thinking about using the includeonly/noinclude tags, thank you! but it seems the syntax will became a lot complex in order to properly render in the pdf version created by collections... Helder 14:15, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Question: image and code

Hi, I have made pdf from page : Fractals/Iterations_in_the_complex_plane/Julia_set Julia set. It looks good. The only problem is that the code is on the image . See for example section "External distance estimation" in pdf file. Here psedocode : "if (LastIteration==IterationMax) then { /* interior of Julia set: color = black */ }...." Is on the image : Julia set : image with C source code. How can I change it ? Regards. --Adam majewski (talk) 07:47, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Bug: Errors in creating ODF book

Trying to create http://lt.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_žaliems:_openSUSE gets this error:

An error occured on the render server: traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/apps/render.py", line 177, in __call__ writer(env, output=tmpout, status_callback=self.status, **writer_options) File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 775, in writer w.writeBook(book, output=output) File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 146, in writeBook self.write(e, self.doc.text) File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 238, in write self.write(c,e) File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 238, in write self.write(c,e) File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 238, in write self.write(c,e) File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 234, in write if not saveAddChild(parent, e): File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 191, in saveAddChild p.addElement(c) File "/home/pp/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mwlib-0.12.13-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/mwlib/odfwriter.py", line 85, in addElement log("ParagraphProxy:addElement() ", e.type, "not allowed in any parents, failed, should have been added to", self.type) AttributeError: Element instance has no attribute 'type' sys.argv=['/home/pp/local/bin/mw-render', '--logfile', '/home/pp/cache/serve/1c/1cd5dd77142f3cd2/mw-render.log.odf', '--error-file', '/home/pp/cache/serve/1c/1cd5dd77142f3cd2/errors.odf', '--status-file', '/home/pp/cache/serve/1c/1cd5dd77142f3cd2/status.odf', '--writer', 'odf', '--output', '/home/pp/cache/serve/1c/1cd5dd77142f3cd2/output.odf', '--pid-file', '/home/pp/cache/serve/1c/1cd5dd77142f3cd2/pid.odf', '--metabook', '/home/pp/cache/serve/1c/1cd5dd77142f3cd2/metabook.json', '--keep-zip', '/home/pp/cache/serve/1c/1cd5dd77142f3cd2/collection.zip', '--config', 'http://lt.wikibooks.org/w', '--template-blacklist', 'MediaWiki:PDF Template Blacklist', '--template-exclusion-category', 'Exclude in print', '--print-template-prefix', 'Spausdinti', '--print-template-pattern', '$1/Print', '--script-extension', '.php', '--language', 'lt']

I found that this related to:

• Some links has # symbol
• There is some <!-- ... --> markup
• Name of article has : symbol

But PDF generates sucessfully!

Can somebody fix this ODF book creation error?

Bug: repeats the first 5 entries in the table of contents

On the first page, the first five items are shown with page numbers twice Pearts (talk) 23:11, 31 July 2010 (UTC) as in

Contents
Articles
Editing Wikitext 1
Editing Wikitext/Emphasis and Links 3
Editing Wikitext/Indents and Lists 9
Editing Wikitext/Headers 13
Editing Wikitext/Preformatted Text 16
Editing Wikitext/Pictures/The Quick Course 27
Editing Wikitext/Pictures/Tiled Images 40

Articles
Editing Wikitext 1
Editing Wikitext/Emphasis and Links 3
Editing Wikitext/Indents and Lists 9
Editing Wikitext/Headers 13
Editing Wikitext/Preformatted Text 16
Editing Wikitext/Pictures/The Quick Course 27
Editing Wikitext/Pictures/Tiled Images 40
Editing Wikitext/Pictures/Images in Containers 43
Editing Wikitext/Tables 58
Editing Wikitext/Tables Ready to Use 70
Editing Wikitext/Making Templates A101 75

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Where? – Adrignola talk 23:59, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Bug: pdf book font is kinda small

the book font look like it's a 8pt font, thats really small, it should be a 10 or 12 point font. Pearts (talk) 23:16, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Did you check to see if you are viewing the PDF at 100% zoom or not? It may be fitting the PDF to the window size. – Adrignola talk 00:00, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Images can be improperly positionned in generated PDF

Hi,

I've generated a PDF form the Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro wikibook. Resulting PDF is : here (A4 format).

Result is good, except for some pages where images (which appeared centered on the online version) are moved partially outside the right margin in the generated PDF. Example of such page incorreclty generated is Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Coordinate_Transformations (the 3rd image of the LEM is centered online, but incorrect in the generated PDF).

Please help. A.M.Reng. (discuss • contribs) 11:11, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Cannot save collection,using Collections tool

I use IE9, and I have been a user here for over a month. I cannot fill in a collection file name for either my namespace or the wiki space -- the input field is disabled. And so is the "submit" button for the field.

If I modify the HTML on-the-fly from my browser to fill in the collection name and enable the submit button, then hit the submit button, the save never happens. Yesterday, when I tried this, I got a bunch of wiki errors.--AngelinaBelle (discuss • contribs) 11:25, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I have filed a bug report for this, as I see it's also been reported at Wikipedia and I was able to reproduce the error when saving. I had to try to save to the Wikibooks namespace, as I was able to fill in the text field for the Wikibooks namespace, but not the user namespace. – Adrignola discuss 14:20, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

A few issues with PDF render

I like collections, but the output just isn't up to it at the moment and it looks like I'll have to go back to print versions. You can find the issues here in a collection I've been trying to build:User:Pluke/Collections/Unit2

• <syntaxhighlight> tag not working
• passing <syntaxhighlight> to a template causes the template parameter to not be passed correctly, defaulting back to {{{1}}}
• You can't have an exercise box that spreads over more than one page
  • See Boolean gate combination
• internal wikipedia links are not highlighted, but present ie. using: [[w:apple|apple]]
• inconsistent rendering of CSS / styles
  • box widths not 100% when they are in wiki view
  • background colours missing from most css
  • style formatting of text in tables doesn't seem to work
• wikitable display is inconsistent
  • table caption is displayed incorrectly |+ '''Examples of Boolean Algebra shown in a truth table''' (this may be a result of nested tables not being handled correctly)
• transparency on SVGs appears as plain black
• <big> tag not working
• {{cquote}} rendering is a little clumsy, the speech marks over lap the text

Pluke (discuss • contribs) 22:12, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Section Numbers

I'm in the process of adding chapter and section numbers for a collection, specifically Wikibooks:Collections/GLSL_Programming_in_Unity. The idea is to hard code chapter and section numbers in that page and to have a template ({{GLSL Programming Unity SectionRef}}) with hard coded chapter and section numbers to produce numbered references in the output for print. Whenever the numbering changes (e.g. when sections are added, removed, or moved around), these two pages but no other pages have to be changed. Is there an easier way to achieve a similar result? --Martin Kraus (discuss • contribs) 22:01, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Positive Feedback

I am not sure whether this is the proper venue for submitting such feedback, but it's the only one I've found so far. I am very impressed with the quality of the output of the PDF generation. I mean, I'm no document expert or anything, but it exceeds anything I expected. Quite excellent. If anyone could pass on my congratulations and my thanks to the people who made the PDF generation system possible, I would be grateful. A job well done. -- 00:39 28 January 2013 (UTC)