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If you don't have high typesetting needs, maybe WeasyPrint fits your use case.

Oh my god, this is fantastic. It doesn't solve the DSL part but it does solve the output-to-PDF-using-CSS part. They also seem so nice!

I guess I can clobber together my own DSL and then run with this. I can't thank you enough

Glad to be of help. Just out of curiosity, what's your use case?

Starting my own company to solve other people's use cases :-)

I'm a business "end user" who also loves programming. After 10+ years being a part of both worlds, I feel like I have a very strong vision for how these tools should work, so I've decided to build my own. It's a daunting task, but if I can leverage existing tools, maybe it's just a matter of gluing everything together neatly

Maybe take a look at pandoc before writing your own DSL. You can use it with --pdf-engine=weasyprint, so your DSL can be Markdown, reStructuredText, Org-mode, ...

Thank you. pandoc may be part of the glue too, I have to think about it. I probably do want my own DSL as none of the existing ones apply to my "domain", "specifically"

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