Books

You can generate a printable version of the current page using the icon, this can be used to print a page.

But what about having more pages in the printout, or have other formats for working offline?

For this purpose, there is the export book feature. A collection of pages can be exported in a single file, with a table of contents and similar features of a book. The pages will be selected traversing the hyperlinks of the current page and the hyperlinks of these pages and so on. The hyperlinks will be modified to refer to the exported pages rather than to the original repository. In addition, only the content frame will be exported.

Usually, the pages will be restricted to pages inheriting from the current page, however, this can be overridden. It is recommended to limit the level of indirections, because this may otherwise result in too many pages within the book.

It is very simple to create a book. In the toolbar, select the icon. This will show a dialog to specify the location of the book:

In addition, some attributes may be specified:

  • The type of the book. Currently EPUB and zipped HTML are available.
  • Follow links. If selected, the pages of the book are not restricted to inherit from the current page. Note, that this may result in large portions of the repository being included in the book, so select an appropriate recursion level in this case.
  • Recursion level. This limits the level of indirections via hyperlinks. For instance, a recursion level of 1 will only allow the current page and the immediate references of this page to be contained in the book.

EPUB book

This is an open format for electronic books, that can be displayed by a e-reader.

Basically, it consists of HTML pages in a ZIP archive. In addition, the sequence of pages is specified and a table of contents, which can be displayed in the toc view of the ereader. A title page and some meta information are included. For nodes, the title page will include the path, creator and creation time of the node and its version.

HTML book

This is useful, if a set of pages shall be made available to a web server as static pages. The nodes home page and the referenced pages have been created by that.