why does academia love to use pdf files?

[galoisien]

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Also, it probably helps with formatting (footnotes, for example, are difficult to implement in HTML without investing a substantial amount of time in doing so).

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<p>Meh … just use export to HTML function. (That’s in OpenOffice … which is what academia should use!)</p>

<p>I make my papers in Wikipedia on my own private userpage and then I just export the source. :D</p>