You may be disappointed by a lot of typesetting details on a paged HTML page. HTML and CSS still cannot beat other dominating tools like Word or LaTeX when it comes to typesetting content under the constraint of “pages”. The main reason is that the W3C specs are still in the draft mode, so most web browsers have not really implemented them.
Although the working draft has been there for nearly two decades, it is still not common to see authors write or print books with HTML and CSS. When talking about HTML and CSS, we may have never imagined their possible off-screen use such as printing to PDF.Ĭan we print a book with HTML and CSS? W3C published the first working draft on “Paged Media Properties for CSS(3)”, which was last updated in 2013. When talking about PDF and printing, we often think of tools like LaTeX and Microsoft Word.
