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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:57:55 +0100
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:59:18 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:

> Suppose we decide to have books with chapters with paragraphs. Are we
> going to say
> 
> <book>
>   <chapter>
>     <paragraph>

Let's not. Documents have no such structure. When imposed on, this
structure makes usage of the documents very difficult. I have to work with
many documents on networking issues, they are mostly in PDF. These are
almost unusable *because* they are 1) in PDF, 2) structured as "books,"
which they are not, and never should have been.

A hierarchy of text segments (chapter, paragraph etc) is a possible view of
the document, of which importance is quite minor and becoming more and more
negligible, because documents are never read sequentially. Document is not
a fiction novel. The structure of pages is also a view, a harmful view,
because pages have nothing to do either with the content or with the
rendering on the display.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de