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Why do people publish in this awkward obsolete Letter-size paper format that is hard-to-impossible to read on modern computer screens? Who is going to print ou

• dqv 6y ago
  Probably mathematicians just like to use LaTeX (or TeX? idk the difference). You could download the source in the other formats page[0] and convert it to whatever format you want using pandoc[1]. [0]: https://arxiv.org/format/1205.4797 https://arxiv.org/format/1205.4797 [1]: https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/
• anoncake 6y ago
  People who read it and are aware that screens aren't great for reading comprehension.
• User23 6y ago
  Printing papers out is a great way to let your optic nerve do the work so you can save your short term memory for comprehension rather than simply recalling what the symbols are. I absolutely love printing out shortish papers single sided and sticking every single page in order on a poster board or wall. Our eyes are made for flicking from one thing to the next, it works really well. And also highlighting and other note taking is much more direct and intuitive in this format. I also discovered I prefer a columnar format. if I had a monitor that could display 18 pages at once at 12-14pt and was as easy to annotate as using a pen or marker then maybe I wouldn't do this, but I don't.
• Raphmedia 6y ago
  This is a PDF. You can zoom in it. I'm not wearing my glasses right now, so I just zoomed until the letters were several centimetres wide. Unless you meant that there's not enough words per lines?