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I've done ab bit of web-searching and found nothing. Are there any attempts on using CSS for LaTeX formatting? For example:

body { font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; }
section { font-size: 16pt; }
/* or: */
h1 { font-size: 16pt; }

I know that this approach is limited compared to the classic approach, but it could be a nice attempt. So are there any published papers or code pieces?

I'd like to write in the preamble of my LaTeX document: \usestylefile{foo.css} and have the text rendered as written in the given style file (and its linked style files).

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Could you be a bit more specific about the background of your approach? Most of these things can be set up, but none of them so simple as in CSS and in some cases it is not even a good idea to do it the css way. – Matthias Pospiech Nov 21 '11 at 13:56
I have slightly extended the question. – dıʞsdoʇ Nov 21 '11 at 14:00
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Using CSS directly is not likely to be possible. You might, however, be interested in things such as the work on a 'LaTeX3 database' to define relationships between document items. – Joseph Wright♦ Nov 21 '11 at 14:05
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OK, let me clarify. Does it has to be CSS tuned to HTML or it can be any valid CSS. The snippet that I posted is actually valid CSS (if you replace text-color by color). So, IMO, all you need to do is come up with a consistent, key-value driven document mode. Then translating CSS style to TeX style is easy. – Aditya Nov 21 '11 at 22:14
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Here's an example. This uses CSS to style an HTML page like the default LaTeX style. Enjoy! – user19535 Oct 4 '12 at 18:29
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I'll take the comments as "there is no css-TeX yet".

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I think/hope the key word here is "yet". – Bruno Le Floch Feb 4 '12 at 23:19

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