Re: Reviving the CSS Print community group


I was very happy to discuss CSS print during the PageBreak conferences 
and meet new people who were interested.



Many features need to be discussed without everyone doing their own 
extension on their side: table breaks, full page/spread elements, notes 
(margin notes, side notes, column notes, etc.), grid template layout 
fragmentation and so on. 



We have begun work in this direction:
 
https://github.com/w3c/css-print/issues/3



The CSS print community group needs to think about how to bring more 
people into the discussion. It would be great to have more proposals and 
to be able to discuss with CSSWG. I’m motivated to have these 
discussions and do things. Without putting in opposition commercial 
vendors / open-source solutions (especially about extensions because 
it’s not that simple).



Also, the idea of a CSS zen garden for paged media would be really 
close to the original CSS zen garden and more focused on examples 
proposed by graphic designers from the same content (a book?). This 
seems different from the links shared by Andreas

.

Regards,

Julie Blanc

pagedjs.org <https://pagedjs.org/>

Le 30/10/2022 à 17:26, Andreas Jung a écrit :
> On 30 Oct 2022, at 16:45, Dave Pawson wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 at 15:36, Dave Cramer<dauwhe@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Showcase what is possible with CSS print with something like a print version of CSS Zen Garden.
>>> 2. Advocate for CSS print with standards organizations, browsers, publishers, toolmakers, etc.
>>> 3. Facilitate the sharing of knowledge amongst the members of our community.
>>>
>>> We can use this mailing list to talk about what we would like to accomplish, and how. I look forward to reconnecting with all of you!
>> Would something less daunting than docbook be a good starter?
>> I'd love to see CSS showcased.
>
> I think, there is already a bunch of material available on the vendor pages and
> our community sites like
>
> https://printcss.net/
> https://print-css.rocks/
>
> We have two types of parties in the game.
>
> First, the commercial vendors which implement the „standards“ around PrintCSS aka CSS Paged Media together with their own _useful_ extensions which are needed for professional projects.
>
> Second, the open-source solutions that in my experience stick strictly to the W3C „standards“ and trying to
> avoid any kind of extensions.
>
> I have my doubts (based on experiences) that we will get them under one hood in order to steer the board into
> one direction 🥺 🙄
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen | Kind regards
> Andreas Jung
>
>
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