-Despite their limitations, we still use static, boring old PDFs. Particularly in scientific communication.
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- \item They are portable; you can write an amazing document in Mathematica/Matlab but it
- \item Scientific journals would need to adapt to other formats and this is not worth the effort
- \item No network connection is required to view a PDF (although DRM might change this?)
- \item All rescources are stored in a single file; a website is stored accross many seperate files (call this a ``distributed'' document format?)
- \item You can create PDFs easily using desktop processing WYSIWYG editors; WYSIWYG editors for web based documents are worthless due to the more complex content
- \item Until Javascript becomes part of the PDF standard, including Javascript in PDF documents will not become widespread
- \item Once you complicate a PDF by adding Javascript, it becomes more complicated to create; it is simply easier to use a series of static figures than to embed a shader in your document. Even for people that know WebGL.
-\end{itemize}
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-\rephrase{3. Here are the ways document standards specify precision (or don't)}
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-\section{Precision in Modern Document Formats}
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-\rephrase{All the above is very interesting and provides important context, but it is not actually directly related to the problem of infinite precision which we are going to try and solve. Sorry to make you read it all.}