This would be an excellent feature to include! Perhaps in the collection thing, styles could be meta pages on the wiki like Templates... could we even have control on the page dimensions? for alternative layout designs? Also, the ODF export would be nice to see... glad you mentioned this Jimbo
On Feb 5, 2008 2:28 PM, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > At a conceptual level we've spent a little time thinking about the > possibilities here -- but to the best of my knowledge this hasn't > drilled down to the level of specifications and incorporation into the > road map. > > I think the inclusion of styles is a very smart idea. WE would > certainly welcome and support the implementation of styles to enable > local institutions to brand the output. This could extend to unique > institutional icon sets for the iDevices which institutions may wish > to share back with the community. > > Have you had a chance to peek at the code engine for the wiki==> pdf > functionality. It's python <smile> and I know that you're a python > hacker of note! > > I'd be keen play around with a few ideas and see whether we can raise > any funding to get code development work done to widen the feature set > of this OSS development. > > Any other cool ideas apart from the Collection ==> IMS packages (this > feature rocks!) and your thinking on styles. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > On Feb 4, 1:46 pm, "Jim Tittsler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has there been discussion of using custom styles to control how a > > collection is rendered? > > > > For example, I would like to be able to associate a "style" with a > > collection that would control how it is rendered to PDF, such as which > > templates/classes to show and which to hide. If I didn't specify a > > style for a particular collection it would fall back to my default > > style (and if I didn't have one of those, back to the system default > > rendering choices). > > > > This might have implications beyond just PDFs. I am experimenting > > with a web service that allows exporting a collection in IMS Content > > Package form so that a group of pages can be used as a resource within > > a Learning Management System. I want an "style" option there (to > > control what is rendered, how the pages are branded, etc.) and > > realized that the same concept also applies to PDFs and other export > > possibilities. > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
