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by teddy-smith 192 days ago
Come on are you serious? HTML/CSS is more powerful than TEX or PDF.

https://csszengarden.com/
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crazygringo 192 days ago
Did you fully read my comment? Please point me to where HTML/CSS provide the features I listed.

It doesn't really matter if HTML/CSS is more powerful at a hundred other layout things, if it doesn't provide the absolute necessary features for papers.

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teddy-smith 191 days ago
Citations in various formats,

> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

> https://codepen.io/tag/citation

footnotes

>https://codepen.io/SitePoint/pen/QbMgvY

references to automatically numbered figures and tables

> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25869906/table-auto-numb...\

> https://codepen.io/MikeKelley/pen/GpXmEd

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crazygringo 189 days ago
I don't think you understand.

Citations need to generate reference lists. Footnotes require automatic placement at the bottom of each page. Your examples of numbered tables are numbering the rows, not the tables. And figure numbers need to be referenced in the text.

None of what you're pointing to does what academic papers need. Why are you trying to push this agenda?

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