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On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:31:08PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:35:39PM -0700, TR NS wrote:
> > 
> > It is. But recently I found a solution I like even better,
> > mainly because it is a more direct solution. It's called
> > WeasyPrint and it is an HTML to PDF converter. Because it is
> > HTML based, it is much easier to manipulate custom markup. This
> > can be doen via coded transforms if need be, but much of it can
> > be done via CSS which is really nice. And since Markdown
> > passes-thru custom markup, it can be used as the source markup. 
> > 
> > However it remains to be seen to what degree the printed output
> > will be suitable. My preliminary tests looked good, but as
> > always the devil is in the details.
> > 
> > http://weasyprint.org/
> 
> I would *love* if such a thing worked, but the big thing I'm not
> seeing in the examples is page-numbered cross-references, i.e.
> "the armadillo (see page 22) is a blue fish".
> 
> Can you test to see if you can generate such things, and if so
> show me a pdf example?

So, yeah, no.  See https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/218

The way to do this is http://www.princexml.com/purchase/ , which I
had previously rejected because ridiculously expensive.

Having said that, though, the LLG certainly *can* afford the $500
for a single user license, so that's certainly an option.  Feel free
to play with the free version and see what's what.

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