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Or just improve HTML text rendering such that Latex isn't necessary to generate beautiful documents. And add better support for concepts like page numbers, pag

Or just improve HTML text rendering such that Latex isn't necessary to generate beautiful documents. And add better support for concepts like page numbers, page headers, page footers, which while theoretically supported by HTML and CSS, aren't well supported in practice. Given that many people use Python now for scientific purposes, and it's a straightforward language, to add extensibility to this Latex replacement, maybe just use Jinja templates and Python packages.

inimino 6y ago
You are greatly underestimating (1) the effort it took (in committees, over decades) to get CSS where it is now (and DSSSL, XSL-FO, and all the related work in this area) and (2) the vastness of the gap between where the Web platform is after all these years vs. where TeX already was before the Web even existed.