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HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

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262 points el3ctron | 5 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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teddy-smith ◴[06 Dec 25 17:12 UTC] No.46174872[source]▶
It's extremely easy to convert HTML/CSS to a PDF with the print to PDF feature of the browser.

All papers should be in HTML/CSS or Tex then just simply converted to PDF.

Why are we even talking about this?

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1. carlosjobim ◴[06 Dec 25 18:33 UTC] No.46175487[source]▶
Except you can't have page breaks, three links in a row, anchor links.
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2. teddy-smith ◴[06 Dec 25 23:40 UTC] No.46177658[source]▶
@media print { .page, .page-break { break-after: page; } }
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3. carlosjobim ◴[07 Dec 25 00:21 UTC] No.46177997[source]▶
It doesn't function in real use, it's just theoretical.
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4. teddy-smith ◴[07 Dec 25 16:30 UTC] No.46182904{3}[source]▶
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...

Literally part of Mozilla's docs.

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5. carlosjobim ◴[07 Dec 25 20:46 UTC] No.46184992{4}[source]▶
That's theory. Can you send me a link to any html file where this actually works? It's a problem I'd love to have solved.

Edit to clarify: The break-after property works with the worthless print dialogues, but doesn't function with "Export to PDF", which is what most people will want to use.