User talk:Twilght's End

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Printable version of pages

Hi Twilght's End,

Regarding your question at the Help desk on How to edit the printable version of the topic—I now see what you are referring to. This turned out to be a somewhat more complex issue than I initially thought.

When you click on the "Printable version" link at the left-hand side of an article, the page is re-rendered to display correctly using a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) that lives here, so editing an article as usual will also automatically affect the way its printable version ends up looking like. Note that, if you use the default Monobook skin for Wikipedia, your printer should automatically select this style sheet when you print an article. In other words, it is not actually necessary to first click on the "Printable version" link before printing an article. Also, the actual printed version of the article seems to print correctly, even though it does not appear correct on your screen. You can confirm this by using the "Print preview" feature of your web brower (usually under the "File" menu). As such, I wouldn't worry too much about the line spacing in the "Printable version" of an article not displaying correctly. See Help:Printable for more information. According to this, viewing a print-optimized version of an article does not work when using the Monobook skin (I am not sure why the "Printable version" link is still available, in that case). I tested using both Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0, and the line spacing problem is less apparent under Firefox, should you with to consider switching as a temporary solution.

Some more, probably boring details:

The actual cause of the line spacing problem seems to be the use of <ref>..</ref> tags, used for adding footnotes to articles as a way of citing its sources. More specifically, a component of the WikiMedia software called Cite.php is used to generate references and footnotes, and I believe this is the source of the actual problem. I've posted a message at the talk page for Cite.php regarding this. Hopefully we can find a solution.

Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with. —Xhantar^Talk 19:48, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]