This might be a hot take, but I think this is unnecessarily complicated and is a solution looking for a problem. My thoughts apply more broadly to the CSS Draft for pagination as well.
In general - why does the Web need this? This is a less-flexible CSS grid, with some auto-increment and @media(print) styles mixed in.
The use case for faithfully representing a textual work is not convincing - this can be done already, more accurately, and in a far less complicated manner by using images or PDF or any other format more suited than hypertext markup and CSS.
We already have pagination on the Web, it's called a webpage.
In general - why does the Web need this? This is a less-flexible CSS grid, with some auto-increment and @media(print) styles mixed in.
The use case for faithfully representing a textual work is not convincing - this can be done already, more accurately, and in a far less complicated manner by using images or PDF or any other format more suited than hypertext markup and CSS.
We already have pagination on the Web, it's called a webpage.
This just feels so wrong and not what a Web document should be: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/