> Robin Fairbairns writes: > > i've today been told that "converting whole documents to pdf is > > entirely the wrong idea". > do they think Pinochet should be sent home too? i dunno. when are they going to charge thatcher with war crimes, that's what i want to know? > > the imaging model is fine; there are those who don't think the > > hypertextual model is good enough, it seems. who am i to gainsay > > them? (i haven't been a `mathematician' since 1967, so i hardly > > i'm slightly bemused to hear that mathematicians now require special > _hypertext_ as well as everything else. but I'd point out that a link > embedded in a PDF document should be able to be expressed in XPointer > syntax perfectly well, which helps a little. I'd agree that internally > the PDF model is simplistic - but then who *has* implemented anything > better in mainstream software? i was merely relaying a comment i'd just read (and spent some time responding to). in essence, everyone wants everything, *now*. acting in a support role, the best one can hope to do is to tell them about the limited subset they can _have_ now; but the potential of the future offerings (mathml, and then something along the openmath lines later) is a nice thing to have to blind 'em with science when they carry on whinging. people ask me direct, i tell 'em "use pdf". r