The paper is the disaster-proof archive format. Pre-apocalypse, there's no reason for anyone except the journal committee to read the content of a published pap

The paper is the disaster-proof archive format. Pre-apocalypse, there's no reason for anyone except the journal committee to read the content of a published paper. Any academic who wants to be read publishes in a more readable version of their research. I'm not sure how, but sometimes a well-formatted paper gets published Example: https://maartenfokkinga.github.io/utwente/mmf91m.pdf https://maartenfokkinga.github.io/utwente/mmf91m.pdf