Re: Is there a PDF or all-one-page HTML version of the "MH and xmh" book?
Jerry Peek <jpeek <at> jpeek.com>
2011-08-06 20:24:53 GMT
Hi --
First, you can download the book from the "download this book" link
in the last bulleted text on the Browsing Help page:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/browhelp.html
It shouldn't be hard to write a little script of some type to chop
off the header and footer code that surrounds the main text in each
page. You might then insert some HTML code between each page to
make some sort of marker so it's easy to tell which section you're
reading (and to give you a text target to search for a section you
want). Once you'd glued together an HTML version in a single file,
you could open the file in a program like OpenOffice.org Writer and
save it as a PDF -- though it wouldn't have all of the PDF features
like bookmarks.
One thing you'd miss, though (besides the pretty formatting :) is
that the cross-reference links to other sections wouldn't work
anymore (unless you did more hackery during the conversion). You
could probably work around that by using the "search page" function
in your browser or PDF reader.
I haven't worked on this book for years, so maybe other people have
better ideas or can point you to just the version you want!
Jerry
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