A) I think that says much more about the low quality of a particular
PDF reader than about PDF itself. The point solution is obvious: never
use that piece of software.
B) For many of us who need to refer to IETF standards while looking at
the world through a 24x80 ssh session, ASCII is most convenient. But
not everyone works that way, and not who *does* work that way does
so all the time.
C) While avoiding trendy, transient, proprietary, idiosyncratic document
formats is a good thing, there has been -- to Tim Bray's point -- some
progress in this area over the past few decades. I think it's reasonable
to talk about maintaining documents in a master format from which
renditions are derived, e.g., keep the document in XML and generate from
that ASCII, HTML, PDF or other renderings. Yes, this is a road with
a thousand potholes, some of them large.
D) I'm holding out for troff. ;-)
---Rsk
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