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Old 05-16-2007, 05:27 PM   #13
Tommy
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Germany
Device: Iliad, Sony 505
Hi,

maybe this is the opportunity the perl-hack (getfeed.pl) I posted in the Scotty's "Daily Illadian" thread
What this hack does is to fetch one or more feeds and convert them into either an HTML or LaTeX file. Further, it is possible to retrieve the articles to which the feeds are pointing to. In addition to this, it is possible to specify "cutting-tags" (per feed of course), in order chop off annoying stuff (like ads, links referring to other articles, etc)

As this is maybe not exactly what the other posters have in mind, I also want to mention how this program is used: I have a (shell) script that first executes getfeed.pl, runs pdflatex again in order to get the toc right and then the resulting PDF is copied to my USB stick. At the train station I plug in this stick and execute a sript on the Iliad that copies myFeeds.pdf to the Iliad's news folder.
This routine proved quite handy, as there is no need to actually boot the Iliad in the mornings to get the file copied from my PC to the Iliad, but only once to copy the news from the USB stick and then I start reading.

Just as an appetiser, I attached today's edition of my "Daily Illadian"

Best regards,
Tommy

PS: yes, I'm running Linux But in principle it should be possible to use this on an MS-box, too, however some work would have to be invested (perl, latex), but still you wouldn't need to have any developing skills.
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