Oh I had to do such unholy things to that illicit copy of my textbook.
The WHOLE TEXTBOOK is in two and three columns. There’s only one way that works to get into a single colum, and that’s opening the PDF in Word and making it one column.
But because textbooks depend on you paying attention to ITALICS and BOLD, which get lost in these conversions and are hard for me to read anyway, I decided to convert every italic and bold to UNDERLINE.
What a miraculous difference for me that is .
Finally, to VIEW underlines in a console like that – well, there’s very few options available that work that I’ve found, except for one and that’s converting to HTML.
BUT only ONE browser in Linux RESPECTS the underline properly and that is “elinks” (not ‘links’ or ‘lynx’ – they try to render it in color)
and so, with contorted process in hand, I get to look at text in a way that’s pleasant for my eyes, holds my attention]…
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