Thursday, December 3, 2015

Declarative Index Proposal for Printing with CSS

This proposal is about formatting an index with HTML and CSS. It’s something you can’t do today in a standard, cross-implementation way.

The part you can’t do today is getting the lists of page numbers right. The same problem occurs in an index and in cross references. There are vendor extensions to do it, but they are not compatible, so it’s a good candidate for standardization.

A back of the book index looks like this:


Fonts Across the Libre Desktop: Design and Graphics Focus

Today, each application, and each toolkit, offers font selection. But fonts have become gradualy more complex, and none of the interfaces se...