Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
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Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
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Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#2I'm pleased to see it come this far. I still need footnotes, table of contents, and indexing, but maybe someday.
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#3Excellent work. This is good time to remind web front-end developers that you don't need to click a link to bring up a "printable" version of a page. You can make every HTML page print-compatible through stylesheet rules wrapped in @media print { ... } or .
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#4Interesting read, I find asciidoctor pdf and its theming guide extremely good to obtain nice results for books and articles, customizing it with CSS, fonts and more
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#5I love reading printed books and blog posts. For those interested, a starting point for printable CSS is Gutenberg[1]. This has been my go-to for the print media in CSS. I believe I stopped looking for another one with my lack of deeper involvement in development of styles.
I'm also guilty of picking Baskerville as the default classic look to printable font-family and even had resorted to it for screen.
Besides the tools mentioned in the article (Vellum and Atticus), Ulysses also has a good option for print-ready output.
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#6If the objective was not spend on design software, why not use latex?
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#7If the objective was not spend on design software, why not use latex?
I just scrolled through the page. I think https://iangmcdowell.com/blog/book_breaks.png says it all, quite openly. For anyone who delved a bit deeper into the topic, this is horrible to look at.
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#8Awesome writeup! I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek style along with the technical stuff! And CSS is like he mentions - "One he'll of a hammer"
Also, towards the end, this gave me a chuckle!
> It’s like Linux: free so long as your time has no value.
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#9Awesome writeup! I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek style along with the technical stuff! And CSS is like he mentions - "One he'll of a hammer" Also, towards the end, this gave me a chuckle! > It’s like Linux: free so long as your time has no value.
Yeah. I was going to echo this sentiment but it looks like you pre emptively followed me.
The article has the air of a hack done just for the fun of it because the author can. This was popular once upon a time but these days, it's mostly stuff written to promote certain things or as marketing copy.
Re: Laying Out a Print Book with CSS
#10Awesome writeup! I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek style along with the technical stuff! And CSS is like he mentions - "One he'll of a hammer" Also, towards the end, this gave me a chuckle! > It’s like Linux: free so long as your time has no value.
Yeah. I was going to echo this sentiment but it looks like you pre emptively followed me. The article has the air of a hack done just for the fun of it because the author can. This was popular once upon a time but these days, it's mostly stuff written to promote certain things or as marketing copy.
This is marketing, don’t kid yourself.