Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You guys are talking as if every document is a perfected static document. Not
> everybody wants a "portable" document that looks identical everywhere. If

I do.

> that's the case they would just ship the PDF or Postscript. 

No, because in this case:
  - you cannot study how the document was done;
  - you cannot (conveniently) modify the document.

Writing LaTeX code is comparable to programming, and what is good for
usual software is also good for LaTeX code, most of the times.

> Most people most of the time when they're rerunning LaTeX on their source file
> are doing it because they've made changes or their environment has changed.
> There's no point in trying to reconstruct precisely the same document every
> time even if they're on a new system where different paper sizes are
> available. 

Well, we disagree here, but that is no news.

-- 
Florent


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