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Would there be any interest? header tags are used to make table of contents, anchor tags create Index entries, all the formatting tags (tables, un-numbered and numbered lists etc) do basic print formatting. All the bold/underline/italic also render to paper. Sort of like a poor man’s TeX.
Has anyone done this?
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This sounds like the CSS
@media printwith extra stepsThere’s a lot of libraries that convert html to markdown (and in the process get rid of all the javascript spyware).
The android app markdownr can do this on the fly, and I had an idea to create a markdown web browser using that as a base, but no time to work on it.
Yes this is a thing and it’s been around for quite some time. If you’re trying to approximate TeX, you may also be interested in MathML.
I need to go lay down; I’m having flashbacks to the good old days of “XML everywhere for everything all the time”.
Thanks all - It seems there are many ways to do this, or perhaps just write the document in markdown and print it that way. I mean I guess I could always install and lear TeX (again) too.
I mean you can do HTML -> TeX -> PDF with Pandoc, or to any other format pretty much. I would say writing markdown and passing it to TeX or directly to PDF is the most practical.
I write business letters in HTML. I have a custom letter.css and a base letter.html+.js that loads individual letters into a template. I have some custom tags for date, address and similar. The individual docs are super clean. I can export compiled html files with embedded css (no js needed) and images that render perfectly and are even smaller then the pdfs I export (print) and those are small too.
Two downsides. The biggest problem, I didn’t find a way to do proper multi page docs. And especially Firefox has limited print css support.
Second: everything is crudely hacked together and in no way usable by others…
maybe chatgpt can rewrite the code better, so I can publish it?
