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Bug: Locator map positions do not show up correctly in the .pdf version of books
If you view this article, you will see that the site of the settlement is correctly placed on the locator map in the infobox at the top of the article. However, if you then view a .pdf book containing the article, such as here, the settlement is not located at all, with the red dot found at the bottom below the locator map and the settlement name below that set to the right. This appears to be the case with all locator maps added to books. Fenix down (talk) 11:36, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is a known issue. See the link given in the red box. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:09, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Italics for article titles
I'm wondering if there is a way to use italics in article titles. I created a book about the author Ayn Rand, and many of the articles used in the book are about her works. The WP convention is that article titles related to novels, etc., aren't rendered in italics, but for a book it seems more appropriate to me if they were. But although I can use piped links to change the displayed article title in the book, it doesn't seem to interpret wiki-formatting. For example, Anthem rendered as Anthem. Anthem causes the article to not appear in the book at all. Is there another way to do this, or is this just not supported? --RL0919 (talk) 15:44, 10 April 2010 (UTC)


 * See ticket. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:22, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Font size and spacing options
As it is, the text is rendered in large fonts and with much more white space than is found in a conventional printed book. This results in books running on for many more pages than they should. This is true both for the Chapter and heading titles, which are much larger than they should be, and for the main text. Could there be some other options to the final layout of the text to produce more compact books with a more-conventional book layout.

Thanks for a useful tool --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 14:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't see anything wrong with the amount of whitespace or the size of the fonts currently used. These PDFs are designed to be printed after all, using a size-8 font would make things impossible to read on paper. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:27, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Page size options
This is related to the discussion of font sizes above. The last PDF I generated came out in A4 layout. Could it be possible to give the option to set the page size to either A4, Letter, or custom sizes.

Thanks --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 14:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I created a ticket for this. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 22:30, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Large print options would be nice! Sans-serif fonts as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MatKob (talk • contribs) 7:47, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Problem with login at code.pediapress
Anyone else is having problem for login at http://code.pediapress.com? I'm always getting the error: The webpage at http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/prefs/account has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer. Helder 14:56, 10 April 2010 (UTC)


 * It works just fine for me. Is it still doing that for you? Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:23, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Currently after login I get this error:

Warning:  Oops…

Trac detected an internal error: AttributeError: 'MessageWrapper' object has no attribute 'replace' There was an internal error in Trac. It is recommended that you notify your local Trac administrator with the information needed to reproduce the issue.

To that end, you could a ticket.

The action that triggered the error was:

GET: /prefs/account TracGuide — The Trac User and Administration Guide
 * This appears for ever link I click there. BTW I'm using firefox under linux. Helder 22:42, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll notify one of the website maintainers. I should have a reply by tomorrow. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 23:07, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you! ;)

Bug: overline is not reproduce in PDF
The overline text decoration isn't visible in the generated PDF, for example in the following code: Q

An example exists in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_%28electronics%29

To reproduce, just generate the PDF for this page and look at th SR (Reset-Set) flip-flop section on the second page, there is a mix of Q and Q which are all displayed as Q.

Maybe the solution.

Thanks

Llloic (talk) 12:35, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


 * This is a known problem due to ReportLab not supporting overlines. It's been raised in the mailing-lists, although I can't answer how long it will take to resolve. I've created a ticket for good measure. See red box in upper-right corner. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:21, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Printed books however, render overlines just fine. I couldn't tell you why though. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:21, 22 April 2010 (UTC)