Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
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#2We were frustrated by the experience of reading machine learning papers on screens (particularly phones/tablets). There are lots of good tools for authoring HTML papers (Distill, Authorea, etc) but nothing that deals with the vast number of PDF papers that already exist.
So, we built Arxiv Vanity: a site that renders Arxiv papers as web pages. It’s still pretty janky, but for the papers that do render correctly, the experience is so much better than reading a PDF. For example:
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.04085v3/
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1708.00884/
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.06031v2/
The source for the LaTeX to HTML renderer is on GitHub[0]. It’s built on Pandoc[1] and Distill.pub’s template[2].
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#3Awesome thank you so much :) The GAN paper somehow feels more readable :D
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#4This is so much awesome. Thanks for building this.
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#5Nice! PDF is the worst format I can think of to present papers. Especially for reading on mobile this will be of great help.
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#6This is awesome ! Going on my home screen now. Love the design. Maybe you could ask Arxiv to have a button on their site that would direct it so that it opens on your site .
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#7This is an awesome tool. Thanks!
Only issue I've run into so far is that cross-references to theorem numbers don't seem to always work correctly, e.g. you'll see a lot of "Theorem ?" in https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1607.06711/.
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#8This is awesome! I was literally rolling my eyes this morning about trying to read an arXiv paper on my phone.
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#9We were frustrated by the experience of reading machine learning papers on screens (particularly phones/tablets). There are lots of good tools for authoring HTML papers (Distill, Authorea, etc) but nothing that deals with the vast number of PDF papers that already exist. So, we built Arxiv Vanity: a site that renders Arxiv papers as web pages. It’s still pretty janky, but for the papers that do render correctly, the…
I was looking for a way to turn my (soon-to-be-defended) PhD thesis into an epub, and investigated the various LaTeX2Html converters.
I was pretty disappointed when I realized that all of them are terrible and have no hope of handling my manuscript. My current solution is to create a rendering of my thesis in a5 format. :/
This look quite a bit better, so here is the question: what do you not support at the moment?
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#10This is an awesome tool. Thanks! Only issue I've run into so far is that cross-references to theorem numbers don't seem to always work correctly, e.g. you'll see a lot of "Theorem ?" in https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1607.06711/ .
Ah, looks like we don't support theorems. You can track it here: https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/157
Thanks!