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by leggomylibro 3137 days ago
Nice, this looks really cool!

Although...it is going onto a 'read this soon' list, and I'm probably not alone in that. With these sorts of concise primer articles, have you considered providing a .pdf or .tex of the page?

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Poor man's LaTeX in Firefox: about:reader?url=http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/

:-)

> "providing a .pdf or .tex of the page"

I'm not the author, but in the case of .pdf, couldn't you just use a 'Print to PDF' solution? On Windows I've used PrimoPDF before, don't know what OS you use but guessing all the major platforms have something similar.

Yeah, good point, I guess there are already tons of existing solutions for that which wouldn't eat up the author's bandwidth; the modern web really has spoiled us with so many 1-click conveniences, huh?
Both Chrome and Firefox provide built-in print to PDF feature on Linux and Windows (possibly other OSes too, but I'm not sure). Just click Print and select "save as PDF" or "print to file". Chrome even allows removing the URLs and other metadata from headers and footers.
I like to convert this kind of things to en epub to read later in an ebook, I use https://dotepub.com/?lang=en