[sings]

It is limited and depends on the browser used to print the document. The most glaring missing feature is CMYK colour.

I’ve just set up our publications to use PagedJS, and with a fair amount of hacking I was able to set up a baseline grid. Hyphenation depends on the browser implementation, which is OK for English in recent Chromium. The new text-wrap property has also been helpful. Hanging punctuation is only supported in Safari if I remember correctly.

But being able to produce nice looking PDFs from a markdown document, with automated endnotes and table of contents, is a much nicer process than going through InDesign, and I also say this as someone equally comfortable with both. And the result is good enough for our purposes.

Here is an example: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/LA...

[strogonoff]

I agree that InDesign generally is clunky (the same reason it has a lot of typesetting black magic: business model where you make money by satisfying requests of perfectionist designers and their managers). However, in the past, while I was still doing relevant work, I had mild success abstracting some of it out by defining a template and populating it with data imported from JSON.

Now I’m not using ID much, and struggling with generating PDFs from HTML, so I really appreciated the example you gave. Great work!