Hans Aberg writes:
 > It depends on what one wants to do -- if one merely wants to display a
 > document, then a format like PDF might be OK.
 >
 > But as soon something becomes electronic, there are a lot of other things
 > one wants to do: Reuse the information in various way. Then in a PDF
 > format, that information is lost.
oh lord, who said anything about PDF as a format for re-use? its a
display format. go back to the *ML source if you want to re-purpose. i
dont see the issue. I *do* say that PDF has not a good enough linking
model to support XLink, mind.

Sebastian