Use parallelport and mesa card together

Hello everyone,

i am planning a cnc 3 axis milling machine. I want to use mesa cards to control steppers, encoders, endstops etc. . My control PC is an old one with parallelport. My plan is to use the parallelport to connect a encoder jog wheel (encoder), cycle start, cycle stop, and e-stop. (parallelport has 5 inputs right?)
The PC sits in the contro lpanel housing. It would be nice to not have to run wires from the mesacard, out the electronics-enclosure, into the control panel again.
I didnt find anything on this topic, maybe because its stupid?
Is it possible? If yes, is it a good idea?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings from germany!