Comment by pmlnr
1 day ago
Oh, wow, that's one naive print.css
Missing things like resizing media to not occupy everything, blocking certain elements from getting broken up, and so on, wrap when needed, printing links (sic), etc
The latter is why I moved links into footnotes instead of inline linking - also to prevent breaking up the reading flow.
Also: adding page counters is virtually impossible.
Anyhow, I do think it's a good idea, but mostly for archival reasons: if you really want an archival copy, you'll need to print it.
You can even have footnotes with links to other pages which automatically include the target page number in the text. Print CSS is actually pretty powerful. Just browser support is bad. I use “Prince” to convert html to pdf. With good CSS you can have a really good quality output. I used it to export a pdf for a whole book that way.