[l2h] Anything "new"?

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Thu Sep 6 11:02:26 CEST 2007


Jean-Pierre Chretien <Jean-Pierre.Chretien at cert.fr> wrote:

> In addition, pdf pollutes the web with bunches of non-hypertext stuff.

what???  the pdf i generate has as much hypertext in it as any html i
generate.

there's a valid use for pdf on the web, as much as there is for html.
the sole objection i know of is that it's a proprietary standard which
changes in inscrutable ways, and at a tiresomely fast rate.

> If you want to publish to be read on the web, use html.

or pdf, imo.

> If you want to publish to be downloaded, printed and read on paper,
> publish in pdf.
> 
> With unique LaTeX (LyX?) source, you may in addition do both.


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