Electronic document

An electronic document is any electronic

computer data were considered as something internal — the final data output was always on paper. However, the development of computer networks has made it so that in most cases it is much more convenient to distribute electronic documents than printed ones. The improvements in electronic visual display technologies made it possible to view documents on a screen instead of printing them (thus saving paper and the space required to store the printed copies).^{[citation needed}

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However, using electronic documents for the final presentation instead of paper has created the problem of multiple incompatible

UNIX-style text files (see newline), and for non-English speakers, the different code pages

always have been a source of trouble.

Even more problems are connected with complex file formats of various

electronic articles in physics use TeX or PostScript

.