PDF is a format for storing documents that have already been rendered, not a 
format for writing documents. The competition to PDF is Programs like 
BookManager Read.

Script, GML Starter Set, BookMaster and BookManager Build all provide markup 
languages; their competition includes DocBook, LaTeX and MarkDown.

BTW, it is possible to create links to specific pages between PDF documents on 
the WWW.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Coding for the future

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:09:30 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>.. I miss the DCF based software.
>
PDFs are adequate.  Their worst shortcoming is that cross-document
links open the referenced document but not at the relevant section.

Does DCF do better?

-- gil


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