Meg McRoberts wrote > > I prefer HTML as an output format from the same source that can also > generate PS, PDF, formatted ASCII... It's great to get a technical > document into HTML to display on the web but if I want a printed > copy, the HTML doc isn't compact enough to be satisfying...
I would have thought so myself, but I've been lately reading about CSS's "@media print", and it seems to be a highly tweakable way to tell a browser how it should print an HTML document -- fonts, spacings and margins, text decoration, ignoring elements that have no relevance for the printed page. Just last night, I tried adding some "@media print" options to my program for converting TeX to HTML, and the versions I get by printing (well, I used preview) from the browser seem to be eerily close to what I'd get by running TeX on the document. And I wasn't trying really hard at all. My respect for CSS shot up several notches... -- and it also made me wonder (I'm sure the thought will pass...) why I needed TeX/troff at all, if I could bring myself to authoring directly in HTML. Some online blogs that talk about this: http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2004/09/21/10-minutes-to-printer-friendly-pages/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/ (by CSS guru Erik Meyer) http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200509/printfriendly_css_and_usability/ Some lateral searching may help as well. Back to lurking. Thanks for being an interesting crowd. --d _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
