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Tell us what you would need described in a tutorial to be productive, as well as your background with the technologies involved (TeX/LaTeX, perl, XML, XSLT, HTML). Probably best as…

You will be delighted. Feel free to inspect some sources.

ar5iv tracks the arXiv collection with a one month lag. Exactly as to signal that this is not the "official" arXiv rendering. It is also a showcase predating the arXiv /html/ route…

You can help make LaTeXML better, or you can simply report issues when you spot them during reading. Some we have collected automatically (any errors and missing packages), but oth…

Hi, an arXiv HTML Papers developer here. As a very brief update - we are pending a larger update. You will spot many (many) issues with our current coverage and fidelity of the pap…

Just passing by to mention that if you get excited about seeing your upgrades in arXiv itself, we can talk about contributing them to the arXiv HTML pages. But seeing your plans fo…

Sure, the repository is open source (linked from the front page). The selection did not get much thought at all, just a Rust rand shuffle over all ids performed at first page visit…

One can also grab a random arXiv paper in HTML (via ar5iv), if that was desired. Just visit: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/feeling_lucky

If you are already using LaTeXML, it is also easy to get the ar5iv rendering (example article: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1910.06709 ) You can either copy the CSS asset from…

Right, that's LaTeXML - it tries to emulate as much as possible of the TeX typesetting system, while retaining enough control to emit structured markup. Which also allows us (and g…

To me one of the exciting aspects of HTML is that we can theme the same article in different ways, tailored to individual preferences - just swap in a different CSS file. Having a …

That's it in spirit, but in practice it's refreshed: https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-view-as-html

For the image widths, there is some CSS fine-tuning that is still needed on the arXiv HTML side. I think that will get fixed soon, just needs the right height directive set. Gettin…

Thanks for the kind words, but some corrections: 1. My name is Deyan (hi!) 2. ar5iv was the latest frontend incarnation, but our actual work on converting LaTeX to HTML goes back n…

Wrong, arXiv was first. Check this HTML paper from 1997: https://arxiv.org/html/astro-ph/9708066

Hi, ar5iv creator here. You can think of both arxiv-vanity and ar5iv as the "alpha" experiments that lead into the official arXiv "beta" HTML announced today. Once a few rounds of …

Can confirm. From an ar5iv standpoint, 2.56% articles currently fail to convert entirely, and 22.9% have known errors to the converter. That leaves 74.5% of nominally usable articl…

Zero full-time people on a project without any dedicated funding. Search for "welcome to ar5iv!" on youtube for a talk with the full details.

Sounds like a case of a broken conversion. You can report these with the "report an issue" button at the bottom of each article. And feel free to suggest better styling ideas as we…

Let's revisit your comment in a couple of years, when people actually have had the incentive to publish enough elements out there. If no one uses it, it will eventually get phased …

And yet some of us have managed to use MathML in Firefox for a decade without seeing any browser crashes whatsoever... Strange how that happens.

Hi, ar5iv creator here. Just to jot down that: 1. This was first reported to HN 55 days ago, discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30163308 2. There is an offici…

Oh, and the last question - yes, if arXiv integrates the feature, they will be able to serve any of the versions, including the most recent one. I can technically implement that, b…