[pmwiki-users] wikipublisher questions

John Rankin john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Tue Apr 4 16:59:02 CDT 2006


On Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:47 PM, noskule at gmx.net wrote:
>John Rankin schrieb:
<snip>
>>The hard part of your approach is that the Options button has to 
>>be context sensitive; it needs to know which of the many kinds of
>>typesetting request is being made and generate a different form
>>with different hidden variables in each case. On the other hand,
>>by making it an extra button on existing forms, it already has 
>>the information it needs, 'cos it's already there in the form. 
>>This also let us add the options code incrementally -- with it 
>>on the Wikipublisher page, you have to implement all or nothing.
>>  
>>
>Oky the next step I'm trying is to put a option button in the 
>wikipublisher screen, so theres one link to pdf and an optional screen 
>for the options. The user has to press back to page. . .. this should be 
>a resonable solution.

Good luck. You may need a new (:wikipublisheroptions:) directive
to go along with the (:wikipublisher:) directive. This should let
you develop the code you need without altering the PublishPDF
library. Typesetting a single page is the easiest one, so it's a
good place to start.



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JR
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John Rankin






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