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This overlooks CSS Paged Media based options like paged.js, weasyprint, etc. (You can find the full list here..some open source, some commercial)[0]

[0]https://www.print-css.rocks/tools



Author here.

I mentioned https://polytype.dev/ in the end of the post, which has pages.js included.

Is not that hard to simulate pagination with JavaScript, the deal breaker for me is still line breaking and also mixed languages typesetting nuances.


That's pretty indirect....you might want to look more closely... https://drafts.csswg.org/css-page/ covers quite a lot...

You also didn't mention the new (Chrome only) CSS text-wrap: pretty

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-wrap-pretty

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJFD8nAUuiUX6ArFZQqQo8yT...

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5145771917180928




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