* Mate Nagy <mn...@port70.net> [2009-09-05 10:19]: > This is the most serious drawback of TeX. Documents should look like > how the user wants them, not how the author wants them.
I think a major requirement is that the author (and user) need to be sure that the user is able to see the author's stuff unaltered despite user and author using different tools/environments. This, of course, for the sake of understanding, or better -- for the sake of no misunderstanding due to formatting issues. The point is that the user is often *forced* to see a document in the way his tool shows it, which might differ from how the author sees it, e.g. due to different interpretation of CSS in browsers. I agree, ideally, the user should be able to see the stuff in a way he/she likes it, too. And this is not possible with a generated typesetted pdf/ps document. But if the author provides the source code (TeX) too, this should be good enough for the user. -- cheers stanio_