Neel Nanda comments on Announcing the first issue of Asterisk

[Neel Nanda]

Excited to read! Is there an easy way to download a copy to read offline? Eg a PDF with all the articles. (Obviously I can just save each article individually, but it’s nice to have an easier way!)

[Clara Collier]

I have a PDF of the print version I’m happy to send to you – if there’s a lot of demand, I’ll put it up on the website.

[Will Bradshaw]

I’d really like a pdf too.

[rdestenay]

I’d love to get a print version but I don’t see anything about that on the website. Would it be possible to buy one?

[Clara Collier]

The web store should be live in a couple of days.

[Said Achmiz]

Here is a PDF version of the monkeypox article:

https://​​share.obormot.net/​​temp/​​asteriskmag-modeling-the-end-of-monkeypox.pdf

You can generate such a PDF from any article on the site, in the following way:

1. Using browser dev tools, add a style sheet to the page, and paste in the following CSS:

@media print {
	header.nav-down,
	#popup,
	#popup-trigger,
	#progress,
	section.prev_next,
	.footnotes-list li .close {
		display: none;
	}
	.notes-container,
	.footnotes-list li {
		position: static;
		max-width: unset;
	}
	.notes-container {
		width: var(--maxwidth-text);
		margin: 3em auto 3em auto;
		padding: 1em 0 0 1em;
		border-top: 1px solid black;
	}
	.footnotes-list li {
		width: unset;
		margin: 1em auto;	
		display: list-item;
		padding: 0;
		border: none;
		list-style-type: decimal;
	}
}

1. Use your browser’s Print… command to save the page as a PDF.

(This is possible on a Mac, and I think also on Windows; I don’t know about Linux.)

It would be easy for someone to create such PDFs of all the currently available articles, to combine them into one file, to convert to ebook format, etc.

[rotatingpaguro]

I’d like a PDF version too. I appreciated the effort in an online highlighter, but on the PDF I can take arbitrary notes and they will stay saved forever on my computer if I need to find something I read and my thoughts on it, it does happen.

In particular I’d like a PDF with WIDE MARGINS. Not like normal newspaper pdfs were you have to take notes in collapsible stickies or find a sophisticated note-taker app that is not compatible with other readers.