| >I actually don't agree with this. I think _not_ having "essential dynamism" where it's not needed is actually a feature, not a bug. Yeah. To author's surprise, Adobe's PDF spec supports JavaScript execution[1]. And interactive 3D graphics [2][3]. Not to mention, audio and video [4]. And "Liquid Mode" for responsive-layout PDF documents [5]. Of course, these "features" were considered bugs by the ISO PDF/A spec (archival, i.e. future-proof), so they were all stripped out [6]. The point being: sometimes a document should be a document. As for science papers: LaTeX is written by humans, for humans. Custom latex commands and packages allow one to write a plaintext document that is as easily read as the paper it generates. Which is great for accessibility, among other things. [1] https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scrip... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfyFt3zT5A [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5-1LVtd9U [4] https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/rich-media.html [5] https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/what-is-adobe-liquid-mode.... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A |