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Comments Section of Signpost (and other Signpost issues)

The Signpost books include the comments section of each article, which ought to be excluded. Is there a way to mark a section of an article for exclusion from the books? Additionally each article should ideally begin on its own page. Is there any way to set the book renderer to do that? Zell Faze (talk) 15:01, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

@Zellfaze: I tried Book:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-02-26, and, yes, the comments sections are included in the PDF. That's odd, because they are included via Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-comments-end, which is in Category:Exclude in print. If no one else comments here, I suggest you raise this at WP:VPT. I don't know the answer to your second question. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:15, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Links in PDF Table of Contents

The table of contents in generated PDF files looks nice but it doesn't link to the articles in the book. I'd create a user page and basically copy the book page, remove the semicolons and colons, then use that in my book as a table of contents. That way I'd have a table of contents that I could click on and jump to the articles in the book. I can't disable the generated table of contents as far as I know, so that would suck having two TOCs in a book. It would be really cool if the generated TOC preserved the relative links in the same way that links inside articles do.Matthew Kastor (talk) 03:03, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like an awesome idea...any progress after 4 months? Please see my new entry below regarding an Index.--Graham Proud (talk) 02:32, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

I do agree: the Table of Contents should have clickable links in the PDF.

Index builder? Suggestion

Clearly, as noted above, the Table of Contents MUST have clickable links in the PDF. Similarly, I would like to raise a suggestion for an Index Builder. A book should have a list of index words, much the same as it works with Microsoft Word and other word processors. With Wikipedia we have an opportunity to do something really out of the box here. In much the same way as the Book Creator already scans the book's pages to create a Suggested Pages list, could I suggest that an Index Builder could scan the pages for important words and Statistically Improbable Phrases to create the first-draft index word list?--Graham Proud (talk) 02:37, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

An example is available from PDF Colony--Graham Proud (talk) 02:45, 4 March 2014 (UTC)