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Bug with double apostrophes (italics) and quotation marks

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I couldn't find this as being a "known" issue, though honestly I'm sure it is. But just in case, for Book:Stone Temple Pilots, I couldn't get the book to publish album/song articles if the italic marks were on the outside of the bracket links. To solve the problem, I had to add redundant pipe links to several album titles and song titles. For example, [[Shangri-La Dee Da|''Shangri-La Dee Da'']]. Now then, while this solved the problem with getting the articles to even show up within the book, it still leaves one problem. The album titles, which are correctly italicized on the Book page, will now be published with two apostrophe marks on each side of the name (the "italicizing" code doesn't translate). The songs use quotation marks and work fine. So back to the album issue: either the album titles will have to be listed on the Book page without being italicized, or readers of the published book will have to ignore the erroneous apostrophes in the table of contents. (Or, one can remove the apostrophes from the album titles, publish the book, then undo their edit.) – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 07:56, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah it's an old issue, see top right corner. Can't wait for it to be fixed myself. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 08:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

I figured as much; something like this couldn't have gone unnoticed for too long. Thanks again for the super fast reply! - Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 08:09, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Could you please clarify the problem. If you use double quotes as link text for articles ([[Bla|"Bla"]]) these double quotes will show up in the TOC, as the article title etc. Could you please provide minimal examples and describe the expected behaviour and also what actually happens. Thanks!--Volker.haas (talk) 11:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

After some chatting with headbomb I realized that there still was a bug with unstyled page headers - I fixed that. If there still is some other problem please clarify and provide a minimal example.--Volker.haas (talk) 14:49, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Volker.haas, the TOC in the book is now correct, thank you. I haven't tested to see if double quotes can be placed outside of the brackets or not, but as it stands, italicized links are now reproduced correctly in the books. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 18:51, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Quotes cannot be placed outside. The syntax is :[[Target article|What is displayed]]. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

How do I get the Hypertext links to show?

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When I generate a .PDF book, external links in the text of each included Wikipedia Article continue to work. When I hover over text pointing to an on-line page, I get notified.

However, it would be nice if there was some kind of indication in the PDF file's text indicating the presence of the link. If I hover the cursor over any text that is part of a link, I get notified of the link; but there is nothing else that tells me which sections of text have an attached link.

It would be helpful if I could set an option in Book Creator to have the hypertext links in the .PDF file underlined.

Stephen Poppitt 14:44, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

It's not currently possibly, but there's a feature request for that. See box in the top-right corner. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

How do I get the Contents table to link to each Chapter?

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In a .PDF book, it would be helpful to have internal links in the book's Table of Contents, pointing to the beginning of each Chapter, so that I could jump directly to the start of a particular chapter.

Stephen Poppitt 14:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

It's not currently possibly, but there's a feature request for that. See box in the top-right corner. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Moved from Help talk:Books/for experts

Template:Noprint issues

I had a real struggle with this template and external links - and could find no mention of the problems anywhere.

For example: A direct link to the video of the Röyksopp track "...and The Forest Began To Sing" gives you this result:

text to hide from printing but not mirroring

However the same link using Template:YouTube works fine:

Röyksopp - "...and The Forest Began To Sing" on YouTube

memphisto 16:20, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

That is caused by the presence of a = in the link. You need to use {{noprint|1=* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U714BQfVYLs Röyksopp - "...and The Forest Began To Sing"]}} or {{noprint|1=* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}U714BQfVYLs Röyksopp - "...and The Forest Began To Sing"]}}. This is explained in further details at template:=. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:44, 7 February 2011 (UTC)