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sraymond replied on May 30, 2008 18:35 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

Tim: I find that the formatting is horribly preserved when you try to import HTML (which gets to be some very messy markup in PBWiki) into Word. Sure, it works well for a simple collaborative text page, but when you start adding tables and styles the wheels start to come off. Also, there's no easy way to link pages.

Still, your point is well taken - if the html works for you, life is good.

Tim replied on May 30, 2008 17:23 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

You know.. Word can open html pages and save them as .doc files...

for 1.0 wikis, you can save out the http://wikiname.pbwiki.com/pagename?r... version of the page...
in 2.0 wikis, use this page: http://wikiname.pbwiki.com/pagename?m...

If there are images, you can save the page as "html complete" in internet explorer to make sure that they get preserved as well..

I've had great luck with this method, hope it works for you as well.

sraymond replied on May 30, 2008 04:31 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

David: I agree with your point about "collaborative authoring" falling short if you can only author wiki pages.

Gabriel: Yup... Google can do collaborative document authoring, but not even their "sites" allow for consuming the wiki as anything other than html.

David Vaile replied on May 17, 2008 15:10 to the question "Wiki to Word document?" in PBwiki:

One of the key issues is footnotes. If footnotes from a serious wiki doc can be reintegrated into a form that can be converted to Word or even better, RTF, then these are useful for all sorts of other publishing purposes. Without this, the fantastic open collaborative authoring capability is crippled, because not all projects can use Wiki online format as their only output format.

ChumleyD replied on May 15, 2008 01:05 to the question "Why isn't my new wiki using PBWiki 2.0?" in PBwiki:

Yes, I'm still waiting too. I love the look of wiki 2, and its features.

Vu Nguyen replied on April 25, 2008 01:21 to the question "Set page width" in PBwiki:

Yeah, a table would be the easiest way. If you have premium CSS, I suppose you could also limit the width of the wiki that way...

Aga replied on April 23, 2008 20:36 to the question "Set page width" in PBwiki:

there is a way to get around it by entering your text into the table. Then you can limit width of that table to either pixels size or percentage of the screen. Works nice! And if you don't like that you see border around your text there is some code-snip which you add to wiki-page source and then you will have no borders visible

Clif replied on April 23, 2008 06:25 to the question "Set page width" in PBwiki:

There is no magic setting in PBwiki. It will fill the width of your browser just as most web pages do.

Your only option, as I see it, is to resize your web browser. In other words, make it skinny.

I'm sorry if that is not helpful.

ChumleyD replied on April 23, 2008 06:06 to the question "Set page width" in PBwiki:

No, it doesn't. The issue is not what happens when I print, but what happens on screen.
To read comfortably on screen, there is a limit to the length of the line - somewhere between 66 and 72 characters.

That's what I want to appear on my wiki pages, but I don't know how to set that width.

Clif replied on April 23, 2008 05:55 to the question "Set page width" in PBwiki:

I believe the printed word wrap should follow your A4 page with no problems. If you have images or other content on the page that is wider than an A4 page, then that is probably what is causing the words to wrap to widely.

Check all the content in your wiki to make sure it's not too wide.
Images and tables are the most likely culprits that do not obey wrapping.

ChumleyD asked a question in PBwiki on April 23, 2008 04:13:

Set page width

I want to limit the text width on my wiki pages, I want the word wrapping to follow the layout I get on A4 paper.

Currently the wiki width is too wide and makes the paragraphs difficult to read on screen.

What code should I use to set the page width?

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