> Not directly answering your question, but I suppose the solution is to just pick the closest thing and convert. HTML&CSS being the most full-featured/generic.

> Not directly answering your question, but I suppose the solution is to just pick the closest thing and convert. HTML&CSS being the most full-featured/generic. PDFs specify fixed format. You need some out-of-band info to generate PDFs from HTML. > Maybe ePub would suit your 'typographical' needs (I think it's a lot more open than PDF, and itself HTML based)? EPub is basically a zip with HTML+CSS+some metadata. Newer versions were based on HTML5 while older ones were based on XHTML.