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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by bo1024 on Saturday February 17, 2018 @11:11PM (#16404410)
When you say "rendered to a screen", do you really mean "placed on a webpage"? PDFs generated by LaTeX are rendered to screen all the time.

edit: Actually, I find that I completely agree with your point if "printed" is replaced by "shared in pdf format" and "rendered to screen" is replaced by "shared in plain text or HTML format".

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by kuschku on Sunday February 18, 2018 @08:45AM (#16406045)
You can simplify it even further:

Will the content be shown with fixed line lengths, or with responsive line lengths?

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Re:Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX by kerkeslager on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:47PM (#16410819)
I'll have to think about this further, but at first glance this seems like a better heuristic than what I wrote.

There's a little bit of opinion embedded in my original post, which is that PDF is an inappropriate format when intended for screens. It's okay if you're wanting to provide a primarily printed document on the web or in email, it's okay, but if your primary target is screens, PDF provides a pretty poor user experience.

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