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HTML to Print anyone? [Solved Thanks!] (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This sounds like the CSS @media print with extra steps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I used to write my papers in HTML and a custom print CSS file I made so it fits the school's formatting requirements. It worked surprisingly well. Just write HTML, and then just print it, as basic as it gets. That was easier than bending LaTeX to the school's template which was in MS Office format.

Converting HTML to LaTeX sounds like a completely unnecessary nightmare!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Always frustrates me how underutilized @media print is. Always liked crafting some good CSS for it on sites, especially ones that I worked on that were document heavy.