Your suggestion is great.  I also prefer PDF.  I think one of the reasons 
people have voted against it is that they never heard of it.  Is that so?
PDF is a great electronic and printable format.
If you are willing to do the translations, so be it. Let's have it in 
multiple formats, and use according to taste.

I voted against PDF as I DID know what it was, and it is a real pain.
Symantecs changed the documentation for their MAC C compiler to it,
and now it is much harder to find things and use.  Difficult to read
physically, takes too much screen space, and lots else wrong with it.
Do not assume that knowing something leads to being in favour of it.
I wish I did not know what PDF is.
==John ff

On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Graeme Gerrard wrote:

> PDF is a great electronic and printable format.

Printable - yes. But it's very inconvenient to read on screen.

...kf