[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HI all, > > I've just starting using django and am really impressed. In my simple > app I want to retrieve a single "article" from a db and then display > it broken into reasonable length pages (either based on word count or > a specific markup in the text). I'd really appreciate any pointers on > how I might try to achieve this? I think the built-in paginate seems > to work on multiple objects, so I'm not sure if I can use that? > > thanks!
I don't think that you can use paginator here unless you find an acceptable way to represent your text as a list of equal-weighted objects a paginator may be called with. The only (roughly) equal-weighted entity in your text is a character. I suppose using paginator with a list of characters doesn't make much sense. A requirement of equal-weightness comes from the reasons clarified below. I've spend a lot of time playing with different approaches to breaking big text into pieces in the past. Now I'm quite sure that any solution which tries to split a text _automagically_ sucks no matter what is it based on — word count, paragraphs, anything. You'll have to deal with numerous entities any text consist of — characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, images; markup doubles the pain. The worst thing about is that in 90% of cases people will still see either sentence which is torn apart, or widows (today Django's paginator can, or lost markup, or illustrations will end up on the next page, article sections will be messed, et cetera, et cetera. Typography is not easy, you have to manually fine-tune your output even with TeX, so That's why adding special markup to your article source is a reasonable way to split text and have a finely grained control at how it flows across the pages. Think twice before you split your text at all. Paginated text in the web annoys, distracts reader and doesn't add anything good to searchability of your textual resources. Make sure you add `rel="next"` and `rel="prev"` links so smart agents know where to look for the next page. -- Happy Hacking. http://sphinx.net.ru む --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
