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I don't love reading long articles in fixed-width fonts.
by titanomachy 5y ago
I don't love reading long articles in fixed-width fonts.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThen pipeline to a PS/PDF generator. For most modern Web publishing, this is mostly a matter of finding and extracting the <article> block, as well as metadata (title, byline, dateline). html-xml-tools is quite useful for this. I'd created a WaPo extractor that reduced pagesize by about 95%, stripped the nags and paywalls, etc. Endpoint was HTML, but that could just as easily have generated PDF or ePub if I'd wanted.
- titanomachy 5y agoI applaud people who take advantage of the fact that the internet is still largely machine-readable and hackable. I am much lazier, but I use "reader mode" to similar effect.