From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNU Emacs manual in plain text Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:38:24 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87vbs85lhb.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <8738fc7161.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402447225 25112 80.91.229.3 (11 Jun 2014 00:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:40:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 02:40:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WuWaS-0002os-9V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:40:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WuWaR-0002LB-Sx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:40:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UxdhOwLrK/Lh7K0ZZ4Srrzk7WPI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205865 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98134 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg 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 :) -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573