Re: Emacs Mini Manual (PART 3) - CUSTOMIZING AND EXTENDING EMACS

[James Freer]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> James Freer <jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm very grateful for the time you have spent
> > although now after a couple of weeks I have learnt
> > enough to be happy with. I've found using emacs-nox
> > and forgetting about the gui is worthwhile and taking
> > time to learn from the cheatsheet. It would be nice
> > to have the 'mini manual' in pdf then one could print
> > it out and read on the train (or similar times when
> > one is away from the PC).
>
> Do my ears deceive me?! Finally a guy with class!
> F*ing right!
>
> I haven't seen the particular document, though. I will
> read it tonight and probably get back to the OP with
> some comments.
>
> If you don't like to just print and read the HTML, you
> can use several tools to get it to PDF. You can use
> html2ps, and then ps2pdf - html2ps is in the repos,
> ps2pdf is part of ghostscript, which is likewise in the
> repos. (There are other ways to do this as well.)

html2ps
I'll have to look up

I knew about ps2pdf and pdf2ps as I use it to send faxes. (yes fax still has 
a use). Or maybe I need to look at other methods.

When I 'read on a train' - in truth I really meant that I like the pdf to print 
out, bind, and then use like a book for bedtime reading. keen beginner eh.

james