3 ms·

I don't generally read scientific papers, but I found it annoying that I had to click on the "Figure 1" in the text to see the figure, and that the space in the

by cbhl 13y ago

I don't generally read scientific papers, but I found it annoying that I had to click on the "Figure 1" in the text to see the figure, and that the space in the figure seemed useless until you hit the reference in the text. Part of me wants parallax scroll, but I'm sure that would be a terrible fit unless you had the right number of diagrams and the references to diagrams were equally spaced out (as opposed to having two in the same line). This also reminds me of good old <frame>s from the 90s... Edit: I realized afterwards that you refer to some diagrams multiple times, such as Figure 4. I guess this is a step towards not having to flip back three pages in the PDF to get to that diagram, but I'm not sure it's a "300x improvement" that would cause scientists/academics to switch away from LaTeX (or use your new LaTeX module, if you went that way) any time soon.

egocodedinsol 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean re: click on "Figure 1" to see it. You could scroll back up, but I thought that was the equivalent of flipping back pages. In a lot of scientific papers I read the figure is not on the same page as the first introduction. I considered fixing them to one position, or placing them within the text like most people do, but this interrupted the flow for me. re: "Edit" It's not a 300x improvement by any means. Definitely less cool than the research I get to do ;) That said, I would like to see things switch away from LaTeX as typesetting gets better on the web. I love LaTeX, and was even offered a part-time gig as a LaTeX editor for an economist that has 3 full-time typesetters (I'm not even kidding, he must take division of labor seriously). But it doesn't seem to allow for the same kind of freedom we have now as a result of newer media: it's optimized for print, even with addons like hypertext.
- cbhl 13y ago
  So I find that in order to see the diagram, I need to either scroll manually (O(n) linear search) or click on the reference in the text (makes my hand hurt). I 100% agree with the problem you've identified, but I find your solution confusing. Then again, I found LaTeX confusing when I first used it, so I guess it might just be me not being used to it.

by cbhl 13y ago

egocodedinsol 13y ago

I'm not sure what you mean re: click on "Figure 1" to see it. You could scroll back up, but I thought that was the equivalent of flipping back pages. In a lot of scientific papers I read the figure is not on the same page as the first introduction. I considered fixing them to one position, or placing them within the text like most people do, but this interrupted the flow for me. re: "Edit" It's not a 300x improvement by any means. Definitely less cool than the research I get to do ;) That said, I would like to see things switch away from LaTeX as typesetting gets better on the web. I love LaTeX, and was even offered a part-time gig as a LaTeX editor for an economist that has 3 full-time typesetters (I'm not even kidding, he must take division of labor seriously). But it doesn't seem to allow for the same kind of freedom we have now as a result of newer media: it's optimized for print, even with addons like hypertext.

cbhl 13y ago
So I find that in order to see the diagram, I need to either scroll manually (O(n) linear search) or click on the reference in the text (makes my hand hurt). I 100% agree with the problem you've identified, but I find your solution confusing. Then again, I found LaTeX confusing when I first used it, so I guess it might just be me not being used to it.