Printing a hard copy of the LSL wiki site - what's the best way?

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Re Printing a hard copy of the LSL wiki site - what's the best way?

I'd like to print all the pages and bind, but I'm wondering if there's an easy way to print everything out. Is there a PDF available? I have seen the LSL PDF however it doesn't seem to have anywhere near the information of the wiki site.

Tks

bump (just in case someone has an idea here - is there a PDF? another easy way?)

Nope sorry, I haven't seen this kind of thing available anywhere. I would point out however, that the reason for this may be that it is 'dynamic documentation' i.e. constantly changing. Every time an LSL bug is fixed, a new command is added, or LL decide to deprecate functionality, the Wiki is updated. To print and bind it means that as soon as there's a minor change you're going to need to print and bind a new version.

When I started in August, I just printed out the pages I needed the most, and if I ever needed more pages, I printed more of them later on.

Printing the pages is tough, because many of the code examples only print a medium-size box of part of the code. Often I have to copy and paste the code into another textfile for printing on a seperate page. In fact, Ctrl-A works wonders if you don't mind the odd formatting.

As to the method of categorizing and storing the pages, I have no idea. It gets worse if I do a batch job of copied pages on one document...

What we SHOULD ask is this:

Is there a way for us to download a copy of the wiki for offline use, in its current state?

e.g. Can we have a .zip/.tgz/.tar.gz backup of the site, released once a month or something?

THAT would be something manageable...

And it would help GREATLY if you're travelling or if you've got two computers (but only one with connectivity).

I would be willing to help in this endeavour if I knew how...

(It could be possible to mirror the site via wget or something similar...)

EDIT: Could we try HTTrack? (http://www.httrack.com/) I'll test it and see.


More later.

HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) is working fine.

The wiki is a VERY large site... Lots of links... I think it's going to take a while. It's at 10 megs, 1205 files, still downloading at a pretty fast rate.

Once I get the site backed up, I'll zip it up and put it on an FTP site (if I can find one) for you all to download!





P.S. If anyone has any good FTP sites they can tell me about, I'd be grateful.


EDIT: So I think I understand why there are 8000 files to be downloaded... The HTTrack software is also downloading all of the comments people have left on the wiki site, as well as all revisions and, basically, anything within the http://www.secondlife.com/badgeo/ folder that is linked to. This is going to be a very LARGE download...

So I restarted the download, adding a few filters so that it ignores external sites, revisions.xml pages, and user information.

I'll keep you updated.

The entire website has now been mirrored, save for comments and most external websites.

I'm going to format the site a little, and add a link-to, so that I can zip it up and then post it somewhere. Then, you can simply unzip it (making sure to keep the original folders) and open the index.html and it'll be ready to view.

If anyone knows of a place I can upload this (to allow for you to download) please let me know!

(You can email me at [email]ghordon_farina@yahoo.com[/email])

sounds great Ghordon - I'll stay tuned

I'm don't have somewhere where you could upload it however

have it download only pages where the link is constructed like this.

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=[^&?/]+

that should keep it from reading the revisions and other weird stuffs
course if it doesn't support regex i don't know what you should do.

Sadly, it doesn't support regular expressions.

But I've got the backup made, and available for anyone who wants it.

If anyone's got a good place to save the mirror for others to download, please tell me!