QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 28th August 2007, 10:54pm)
Dang, I wish I could have done better than that.
Me too! But the fact is, this is
no laughing matter.Even if someone were to take the trouble to write a parser to reformat Wikipedia's text in the manner described, with or without images and tables and templates and so forth, you still have to deal with pagination, indexing, cross-references,
ad nauseum. The amount of reformatting work alone would be monumental - it would take thousands of man-hours, maybe tens of thousands to finally get it done. And even if that could ever be finished, the actual printing of that many pages onto even the roughest non-quilted toilet paper would jam nearly every commercially-available printer in existence. I don't even think the technology exists to prevent ink spread on any sort of highly absorbent medium to the extent that people could read the results.
So in the end, people would just wipe their arses with the whole thing anyway. What a waste of time!