The web's early visual limitations led to the creation of CSS, which borrowed concepts from the rich history of typography exemplified by Edward Tufte's books.
CSS for paged media allows for defining page size, margins, page numbers, and running headers to establish a book's fundamental structure.
New CSS float properties like `top`, `bottom`, and `right-note` are proposed to handle complex layouts with figures and sidenotes in paged media.
A technique involving duplicate elements with oversized widths allows a single image or heading to seamlessly span across a two-page spread.
While CSS can automate much of the layout, achieving perfect optical alignment often requires human judgment to adjust elements so they look correct.
JavaScript can enhance the user experience on small screens by transforming sidenotes into interactive, collapsible elements and ensuring baseline alignment for images.
The `text-replace` property allows for automatically substituting character sequences with proper typographic symbols like em-dashes and correct spacing.
A list of tools for generating PDFs from web technologies is provided, along with encouragement for everyone to write and design their own books.
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