From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs manual in plain text
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:38:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbs85lhb.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8738fc7161.fsf@debian.uxu
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> You can also use Emacs-w3m for this. Navigate to the
> URL, then `C-x w' (write-file) and save it to, say,
> page.txt. Check what kind of file it is with
> 'file'. If it says it is UTF-8 or whatever, you can
> use 'recode -f ascii page.txt'. (-f will drop things
> that cannot be recoded.)
>
> Emacs-w3m and recode has to be aptituded from the
> repositories.
Oh, I forgot to mention, 'fold' is useful to change the
length of the lines - 55 chars is perhaps a good digit
- remember, it shouldn't be too wide - just think of
newspaper and magazine articles which typically have
something like three columns for a split A3 - all to
increase readability. (Though to get the max of it, I
think you have to write in a certain way as well...)
Anyway:
fold -s -w 55 old_file.txt > new_file.txt
-w (--width) is to set the desired length (in chars)
-s (--spaces) is to tell fold to break lines at spaces
This would be the last step before
lpr -P $LPDEST page.txt
and then you get to do the absolutely best part: to
read it :)
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-11 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-09 11:57 GNU Emacs manual in plain text Raffaele Ricciardi
2014-06-09 12:52 ` kastian
2014-06-09 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2014-06-11 0:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 0:38 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3291.1402325112.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 18:40 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
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