on december 9th, 2012, jon said:

>   You sacrifice the ability 

>   to change fonts on the fly 

>   which is important to some people

a .pdf does not allow the person to change

the _size_ of the text, and that is a factor

far more important to a good many people.

plus, even then, there are a number of other

variables that users _might_ want to control

which can't be changed when they use a .pdf.

it's amusing that _exactly_ one year earlier

-- december 9th, 2011 -- i posted a message

where i shared the first-draft of a checklist

of the variables that readers like to control:

>   http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2011-December/008474.html

some of these _can_ be controlled -- at least

in _some_ viewer-programs, using some formats

-- but most of 'em can't be changed in a .pdf;

they're frozen in the concrete of that format...

that's why we should give end-users the ability

to make a .pdf customized to their preferences;

unfortunately, i think the la/tex learning-curve

is too steep to suggest it as our path for that.

but it's nice jon can make a .pdf that _he_ likes!

-bowerbird

p.s.  i wouldn't put jon's versions out in public,

however, since there's no need to introduce _more_

one-off snowflakes to an already-confused situation.

just more crap the future will have to analyze and

toss aside once it decides it must sort it all out...

p.p.s.  my dad came from a family that had 12 kids --

6 boys and 6 girls.  and my mom came from a family

with 12 kids: 6 boys and 6 girls.  what are the odds?