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Most authors probably have no interest in learning html. Also most authors want nothing to do with the work by the time its submitted. It was probably hell gett
by kjkjadksj 3y ago
Most authors probably have no interest in learning html. Also most authors want nothing to do with the work by the time its submitted. It was probably hell getting the project to that point of publishing, they want to be done with it and move on to the next thing going on in their career asap.
- jez 3y agoI think this is an argument in favor of doing automatic PDF -> HTML conversion for the authors that don't want to touch it, but I don't think it's an argument against letting those who are fine with HTML provide their own.
- bookofjoe 3y agoYou hit on an unappreciated truth. By the time my papers appeared in print, I was so sick of them and the endless effort involved in taking them from raw data to finished, edited, proofed, rewritten a zillion times to meet the reviewers' and editors' requests and corrections and suggestions, that I didn't even read the published paper when it arrived as preprints and in the journal. Enough! My proof: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en