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CSS definitely has some (a lot of?) benefits over LaTeX in terms of styling, but what I like about LaTeX is that, when you don't care about the specifics, it's
by thesuitonym 4y ago
CSS definitely has some (a lot of?) benefits over LaTeX in terms of styling, but what I like about LaTeX is that, when you don't care about the specifics, it's insanely easy to get a good looking document. About half of this article is trying to finagle CSS into producing styling that LaTeX would produce automatically, by default.
- cubefox 4y agoThat's only the case if you have very simple documents though, like the novel in the blog post. And those aren't usually dynamic anyway. Any more complex layouts, charts, flexible boxes are a major problem for LaTeX. Even seemingly simple tables can be a pain.