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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/21/2020 5:00 PM, Zach Lym via
Unicode wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The fact that the UTR is a PDF document doesn't seem pertinent.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">PDFs do not rank well on Google, you can't deeply link to specific
sections,</pre>
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<p>Actually, you can, if you set them up correctly:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch22.pdf#G12146">https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch22.pdf#G12146</a></p>
<p>That links right to Table 22-3, Script-Specific Decimal Digits on
p. 829, in Section 22.3 of the latest version of the core
specification.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> and they are generally a PITA to work with.</pre>
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Well, your mileage may vary. HTML has its own PITA aspects.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> The Unicode
standard publishes PDFs <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>not<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> because it is a good idea, but because
it's inconvenient to change a 30-year-old publishing workflow.</pre>
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<p>20, not 30, actually. Prior to Unicode 3.0, the Unicode Standard
was done with a different family of editorial tooling. But yeah,
it is inconvenient to change, especially since the document is
riddled with hand-tweaked figures and hacked up fonts. And it's a
thousand pages long, and it has internal indexing and the
sections, figures, and tables are all cross-referenced in the
document. And oh, did I mention? It's a thousand pages long.</p>
<p>Various folks have wanted to reformat it to something more
web-friendly and searchable over the years, but they have tended
to discover other things that they needed to do when faced with
the actual amount of work involved. ;-)</p>
<p>--Ken<br>
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