See also native CSS support for paged media: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/ When I looked into it several years ago, browser support for some critical features wasn't there yet. Not sure whether this has improved. In principle, this would be a great alternative to proprietary PDF rendering libraries which require you to design your document completely in (e.g. Java) code, and to the typical LaTeX approach. You rea…
I dunno about that. For simple stuff, sure HTML and CSS is great, but when I want something print-perfect I use LaTeX. A simple table in LaTeX is no harder than in HTML, assuming the same level of knowledge in the tool. But then when you throw in a simple requirement like "left margins on even pages and right margins on odd pages need to be larger", HTML becomes hell to work in. HTML and CSS, even with a media query…
But it’s old. We need something modern, that represents current ways to make documents from code. And that way is CSS. I bet within my lifetime most scientific publications will move to a PDF tool that ingests CSS. We just need to find something open-source and clean that has no missing functionality.
