This is a big deficiency of HTML, and smacks of the kind of softwarism that so often
sacrifices practicality to ideology. True, a page break command is going to create very
different looks depending on the fonts and paper size. And I bet another motivation is
that nobody is supposed to use 8x11 paper any more--- we are all supposed to carry
around computers, if, indeed, we ever leave a desk. But in fact it is extremely common
to want to have a web page that doesn't cut off in the middle of a sentence when you
print it. People turn to PDF to do this properly, which is bad because PDF files are
slower to load and harder to modify. All we users want is an HTML command which makes
our printer start a new page. It doesn't have to look good, or start a new page only
when the old one is filled up. Rather, we need something like the \newpage command in
Latex. Since Latex is similar in style to HTML---not WYSIWYG, and independent of devices
and fonts-- the useful latex commands ought to be in HTML too.
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