----. Therefore, it makes sense to use the horizontal rules to represent page breaks in the printable version. Simply add the following snippet of CSS:
<style type="text/css">
@media print {
hr { page-break-before: always; visibility: hidden; }
}
</style>
Of course, overloading the horizontal rule is potentially bad form. Another alternative is to simply create an alternate syntax for a page break, such as a very long line of hyphens, e.g. -----------; or a line of equal signs, e.g. ====. When the formatter encounters this, it can emit a horizontal rule with a special CSS class:
<style type="text/css">
@media print {
hr.pagebreak { page-break-before: always; visibility: hidden; }
}
</style>
<hr class="pagebreak">
Alternatively (or additionally), you can do this for heading tags. For example, H1 and H2 tags (possibly H3 as well) can force prior page breaks.
I have found this type of formatting to be extremely useful, to the extent that I have created a series of "mini"-pages that start with fmt+Brk (in this case, for example) since the personal wiki ( WxWikiServer ) that I use allows TransClusion and I can enable HTML. This approach provides the ability to define a whole set of formatting miniPages that can be simply inserted to control the printed output, in conjunction with my various style sheets. All of this is part of what has evolved into a set of very efficient personal productivity tools, based on my discovery of wikis.
-- HansWobbe
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