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A good read but man these PDF's are terrible to read on mobile.
by RedShift1 6y ago
A good read but man these PDF's are terrible to read on mobile.
- gen220 6y agoDo submitters write academic papers in "native" LaTex these days? Or do they write in some intermediary format like markdown? If it's the latter, it'd be pretty trivial to generate a more mobile-friendly html format. I wonder if arxiv supports something like this.
- zozbot234 6y agoLaTeX2html is a thing too.
- ufo 6y agoMost academic papers are still written directly in Latex.
- sjy 6y ago(In computer science, physics and mathematics.)
- scott_s 6y agoAs others said, yes, academic papers are still written in LaTex. However, arXiv does not actually accept a pdf for submissions, but require the actual LaTex sources and they generate their own pdf. As LaTex-to-HTML improves, they could always generate it for all of the submissions for which they have the source.
- gen220 6y agoThat would be fantastic! I hope it’s on their long term roadmap :). They probably have the biggest corpus of LaTex source in the world, that’d be pretty useful to the project maintainers.
- davidgerard 6y agoYou would be unsurprised how many working scientists I know who confess to doing their papers in Word or LO and setting the font to Computer Modern. There's even a (humorous) economics paper on why this is an advantageous method: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joes.12318 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joes.12318
- scott_s 6y agoOn an iPhone, I don't have much difficulty as double-tapping a column zooms into that column in a readable way.
- vietvu 6y agoAcademic paper has been like these for years. And yeah, I don't enjoy reading paper on mobile.