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From: Robin Turner <robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR>

On Sunday 25 March 2001 18:26, you wrote:

> PDF is read only. If the TeX or LaTeX approaches are easy (that is,
> in a WYSIWYG way) to modify, then perhaps the nuisance of learning a
> new editor won't be a big deal. I'd vote for a format that's
> editable. Or, make both .pdf and .doc (or whatever) forms available.

Non-editablity is the big drawback of PDF, though you can turn it into 
something else and edit that (e.g. use pdftotext - also the Windows version 
of Ghostview has some PDF editing facilities, I think). Easy accessibility 
is its big strength.

robin.tr

