> It's not that technical paper authors have shown some special restraint and limited themselves to a subset of what the rest of the PDF world does. Technical p

> It's not that technical paper authors have shown some special restraint and limited themselves to a subset of what the rest of the PDF world does. Technical papers look much like any other PDF and do much the same thing that any other PDF does. This makes zero sense to me. You're saying that technical papers look the same as Principia Discordia or glamor/design magazines or advertising booklets, including those that just archive printed media. That technical papers include web-form functionality just like some PDFs do—advertising or whatnot, I'm not sure. If that's the reality for you then truly I would abhor living in it—guess I'm relatively lucky here in my world. However, if you point me to where such papers hang out, I would at least finally learn what mysterious ‘complex formatting’ people want in papers and which can only be satisfied by PDF.