{"id":3236,"date":"2012-01-01T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codeblab.com\/?page_id=3236"},"modified":"2012-01-02T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T18:46:48","slug":"elos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/elos\/","title":{"rendered":"ELOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Elements of Style<\/b> by William Strunk, Jr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elos.pdf\">DOWNLOAD<\/a> the full page PDF or <a href=\"http:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/elos-kindle.pdf\">DOWNLOAD<\/a> the e-book version.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top:-1px\" src=\"http:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ElosCover1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ElosCover\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3277\" \/>I was &#8220;ordered&#8221; to read <em>&#8220;The Elements of Style&#8221;<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Strunk,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">William Strunk, Jr.<\/a> a long time ago. I tried to find a decent looking version to download, but all I could find where free HTML versions or expensive nice looking ones. So I decided it could not be too hard to just put a few LaTeX statements around the out-of-copyright text of 1918. I did, and it still looked horrible. So I worked on it some more. After putting in ten hours I decided to share the result with the world. I tried to put it up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" title=\"Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg\" target=\"_blank\">Gutenberg.org<\/a>, but they could not accept it for some obscure reason I forgot. They did accept an other version much later.<\/p>\n<p>I put the PDF file up at my university homepage. For the last decade I have been receiving thank-you notes. I don&#8217;t know how much longer the university will host my homepage, therefore I moved the PDF download file here to CodeBlab.<\/p>\n<p>I received an e-mail from Haochen Zhao, suggesting I would create a version for the Kindle. I thought it a nice idea. However, I don&#8217;t own a Kindle. I made a version that fits in 9x12cm with small margins and refined it based on further e-mail exchanges with him, including photo&#8217;s of his Kindle. <\/p>\n<p>So now I host two versions: one in a 1920&#8217;s book style and one more modern and suitable for the Kindle and similar devices. Also you can read the related <a href=\"http:\/\/codeblab.com\/2012\/01\/elos\/\" title=\"ELOS\">blog entry<\/a> on the Makefile for LaTeX. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. DOWNLOAD the full page PDF or DOWNLOAD the e-book version. I was &#8220;ordered&#8221; to read &#8220;The Elements of Style&#8221; by William Strunk, Jr. a long time ago. I tried to find a decent looking version to download, but all I could find where free HTML versions or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3236","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3236\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codeblab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}