Publishing shouldn't be about displaying nicely in screen though but rather about sharing the information. As a bioinformatician, big tables inside pdfs are es

Publishing shouldn't be about displaying nicely in screen though but rather about sharing the information. As a bioinformatician, big tables inside pdfs are essentially useless. What's the point of a few hundred rows worth of a table if you can't manipulate it with whatever tool you prefer? Moreover, I'm writing my thesis and dealing with many pdfs from the 90s in most of which I can't just highlight and copy text so I need to type it out like a savage. Is it guaranteed that today's pdfs will be easy to handle for future people? In my opinion publishing should be done in plain text and .tsv files and the onus of displaying it on screen should fall on the editor (isn't that their job anyway ??)