On Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 2:16:23 AM UTC-7, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Mohammad > > -- *Output/Export* to PDF, Word etc ... Point is academics need to > publish research & articles. > They need flexible export because different journals have > different requirements. > > So you need flexible export, or good PDF "virtual printing". > > I think that is achievable in TW. > > It just needs* better attention to CSS print styling* (though > pagination remains a more complex problem). > > > > If PDF is a requirement for output, then it seems like that is the place to start, especially since it would be useful for many projects. But is there any example of citation-quality PDF being built in TW?
In terms of JS capability, there's a couple projects for producing PDF using JS. It's unclear whether they can be used stand-alone, or whether they would depend on someone else's hosted library, or a running node. What would need to happen is to parse the text (possibly from markdown, not wikitext), and then turn it into js commands that get executed on a TW internal object. That object then gets downloaded or displayed as PDF. Then there's figuring out where to insert footnotes, etc. Doesn't seem trivial, especially considering the small user base. But maybe there's a simpler way? You could use CSS and then print using a PDF extension, assuming that the extensions will honor page breaks. I suspect this approach would be fragile. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c2fa0f9d-fe6f-4494-aa76-5045268e3e9e%40googlegroups.com.
