[Bf-docboard] Bf-docboard Digest, Vol 106, Issue 13

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On lunedì 30 dicembre 2013 8.22.34, Dirk_Hünniger
<dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> you can also compose chapter to a book using the wiki iteself.
> like
>
> {{:FirstChapter}}
> {{:SecondChapter}}

yes but blender wiki has more than 640 wiki pages... if you try to load such
"composition" it will be really heavy...

>
> My Tools is also available for Windows
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/wb2pdf/?source=navbar
> The current version ist MediaWiki2LaTeX.zip in the 7.2 folder.
> It comes with a small gui and a command line version. The command line
> version is called like this
> mediawiki2latex -u https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ries -o AdamRies.pdf

I will try your tool, thanks!

Unfortunately (or not?) blender is always fastly evolving, and the wiki is
never up to date. Add to this that wiki manual is for 2.6x, and you have to
think it as for "current" 2.6x. There's no manual specific to 2.62 or 2.67.
Every new feature or change for every new version is basically always added
to the same manual, so I fear you can't expect the blender manual to not
change for two years! That, until there'll be around a new "current" 2.8x
version .

I hope you get what I mean... It _may_ be possible to have docs for specific
versions, but it's just how the wiki structure is designed now. Before 2.5
there was only  a "current" version that covered 2.25 and on, and it was
sufficient until 2.49b, when gui and part of the tools were completely
redesigned and it was needed a completely new start.

And, about a PDF (or else, like chm) version it seems that the BF is not
much interested in, preferring the wiki approach, apparently.

@mirek: wkhtmltopdf can make  a pdf form multiple html just pass on the
command line multiple html filenames or links. Beware, with a huge wiki like
blender's one, I found a different approach is needed.

basically I download all pages with a script, with images, then join all
html in a single page, convert image links from remote to local, and pass
this single big file to wkhtmltopdf. The script also adjust many little
things, but this may be personal taste.

I plan to make my script better and readable and then share it for others to
improve...

hth,
Marco