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4HTML representations are often quite messy with all sorts of ancillary files and folders (see what you get when you save a journal paper in HTML view from the journal website). A PDF is packaged up nicely to be one file in a consistent format.– Jon CusterCommented Feb 28 at 15:26
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@JonCuster One thing I like about Quarto documents are that the HTML files can be compiled to be self-contained.– Richard EricksonCommented Feb 28 at 17:09
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@JonCuster you can simply compress it into one file. In fact that's what PDF does– OokerCommented Feb 28 at 18:10
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4PDF has now been around for 30+ years, an open format for 15. It likely will be around in another 30 or more given the widespread adoption across many areas. Almost anything can make PDFs (at worst through a ‘printer’ driver). It isn’t going away. It just works.– Jon CusterCommented Feb 28 at 18:20
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it is difficult in html to specify pages and citations often rely on pages. – In HTML you can anchor a heading, and hover the information for citation. Is a page a screen? Does a page take many screens? – Well, you can set it however you like. This very web page take multiple screens, for example. Browsers might insert ads – The same argument can be applied to PDF as well. PDF readers might insert ads (lots of them!).– OokerCommented Feb 28 at 19:17
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