Re: web publishing

:::Jerry:::: wrote:

> Except (x)HTML is not secure,

Not generally an issue. If you're publishing it on the web, even in
PDF format, you are making it available to other people. At the end of
the day, it's not going to be beyond the determined plagiarist to
print, scan and OCR a document to get it in editable form.

> also who ever does the web authoring will also have to write a style
> *** for printing (as you mentioned) unless the formatting for screen
> is very basic.

So the site will need two, very basic, stylesheets - neither of which
are rocket science. Alternatively, just have one for screen, and let
it print as it prints - for academic-type papers, this should suffice.
It's highly unlikely that there will be anything complicated going on
in either style*** - but even if there is something in the screen
css, it is likely to be display:none; in the print css - because all
you want is the text, not the fluff round the edges.

By using css2, you can assist with www referencing by using the :after
to display the href.

> I'm not a fan of PDF files but there is a place for their use,
> academic papers is one I would suggest.

I totally disagree. Academic papers are _precisely_ the sort of
document that HTML handles well - structured documents where the
content is more important than the look of it.

PDF is only useful when there is complicated layout, diagrams or
graphics that can't easily be reproduced in HTML+CSS, or when page
definitions are absolutely essential.

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