Hi Philippe,
actually this is a feature: it indicates the following article is also 
part of the PDF. Clicking the arrow should take you directly to the article.

Regards,
Volker

pg wrote:
> Hi Volker,
>
> Here is another problem that I discovered (visible both in dev version 
> and in stable version).
>
> Some links are displayed with preceding arrow (->), but some are 
> displayed without. Apparently this has to do with the presence of 
> accent in the link words.
>
> In the joined screenshot, you see part of a text. All the elements in 
> the bullet list are supposed to be linked. But only 2 of them include 
> the "->" printed flag.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Philippe
>
>
>
>
> Volker Haas wrote:
>> Hi Philippe
>>
>> philippe gonze wrote:
>>   
>>> **
>>>
>>>     instead of:
>>>
>>>     : [[SomeArticle ]]
>>>
>>>     write:
>>>
>>>     : [[SomeArticle|Display title of the Article]]
>>>
>>>
>>> *I do not use collections. I am using mw-render and pdftk in bash 
>>> scripts.... More convenient than UI-driven actions.
>>> *
>>>     
>> Ok, in that case I guess you really want to know more about the metabook 
>> format ;)
>> Actually there is a documentation about the metabook format in the 
>> mwlib/docs directory (should also be located in the site-packages dir of 
>> mwlib as described below for mwlib.rl)
>>
>> I'll also attach a small script which constructs a json encoded metabook 
>> file. The input is a list of chapters, with an associated list of 
>> articles and their display titles.
>>
>> If you constructed a metabook (with the script I attached for example) 
>> you can render a pdf by using the -m option for the metabook instead of 
>> a zipfile.
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> mw-render -w rl -o test.pdf -c http://en.wikipedia.org/w -m mbook.json
>>
>> One thing to note: the attached script is a somewhat quick and dirty 
>> hack, so don't hold me responsible for anything related to that ;)
>>
>>   
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>>     > - force page jump between all wiki pages
>>>     >
>>>     Add pageBreakAfterArticle = True to your customconfig.py as
>>>     described in
>>>     the README.txt of mwlib.rl
>>>
>>> *The README.txt just mentions files named  customconfig.py and 
>>> pdfstyles.py... but WHERE ARE THESE FILES ?
>>> *
>>>     
>>
>> If your on some kind of linux they should be in the site-packages directory
>>
>> so something like:
>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mwlib.rl/mwlib/rl/pdfstyles.py
>>
>> The customconfig.py file does not exist - you have to create it and then 
>> override the settings from pdfstyles.py.
>>
>> If you checked out the sources with mercurial, the pdfstyles.py file can 
>> by found in the source-tree you checked out.
>>   
>>>     > - specify the presence/absence of footnote documents regarding
>>>     author
>>>     > and/or tool
>>>     >
>>>     Can you clarify that please.
>>>
>>>     > Am I asking too much ? (I also searched a way to add non-wiki
>>>     > intersticial pages - this was solved with pdftk).
>>>     >
>>>     Adding non wiki pages to the pdf is not possible. Using a tool like
>>>     pdftk is currently the only way.
>>>
>>> *Was solved before so no more prob.*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     > And by the way what is a "metabook" ?... Where is it documented
>>>     ? How
>>>     > is it used ?
>>>     >
>>>     Explaining the purpose and usage of the metabook might get lengthy ;).
>>>     What are you trying to do?
>>>
>>> *I am simply writing a large private wiki (probably 200 articles, and 
>>> I try to organize a PDF version (with title page, article numbering, 
>>> TOC...).
>>> *
>>>     
>> ok.
>> Regarding the TOC: just a couple of days ago I implemented an alpha 
>> version of a TOC which is not used currently.
>> The corresponding ticket can be found at: 
>> http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/ticket/277 . Feel free to contribute
>>
>> Regards,
>> Volker
>>
>>
>>   
>
>
> >
>
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