Looks cool although the first paper I tried it on other than the examples didn't work :( Looking forward to seeing this improve!
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Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#42Unfortunately it's failing on first things I tried with a not-so-helpful error message:
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1608.04012/
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/0903.3065/
Also a lot of MathJax failures (maybe Latex variables names?) https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1709.09439/
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#43Really neat!! Thanks for sharing :)
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#44Unfortunately it's failing on first things I tried with a not-so-helpful error message: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1608.04012/ https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/0903.3065/ Also a lot of MathJax failures (maybe Latex variables names?) https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1709.09439/
Those problems are normally Pandoc parsing errors. Considering it's open source, perhaps we should print the error message so people can actually help fix it...
The MathJax failures are either things that MathJax doesn't support, or use of \DeclareMathOperator which we haven't added support for yet.
Edit: Added a more useful error message. :) https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1608.04012/
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#45This is amazing. I hope you'll keep working on it. There's always a long tail of details that need taking care of when trying to cover a large corpus, and ploughing through successive 80%'s is (as you are no doubt acutely aware) serious grunt work. But you've made a fabulous start, so I hope you find the stamina to do it!
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#46I have to admit I am not impressed. My first paper, which I tried to render, does not work properly; references are removed and rendered poorly, figures are misplaced and tables incomplete. Given that not all arXiv papers are under a permissive license and you do not have permission to do this , I would much prefer if you at least made sure that arxiv-vanity rendered papers do not show up in search results, e.g. by o…
I tried a bunch of papers that weren't yours and they came out really well.
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#47I have to admit I am not impressed. My first paper, which I tried to render, does not work properly; references are removed and rendered poorly, figures are misplaced and tables incomplete. Given that not all arXiv papers are under a permissive license and you do not have permission to do this , I would much prefer if you at least made sure that arxiv-vanity rendered papers do not show up in search results, e.g. by o…
I believe in most countries only a court can decide if a site is illegal or not. Not you. And as far as I know this is true in both France [0] and Germany[1].
IANAL.
[0] I got the impression it was a French site
[1] just guessing where you live
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#48Noob question but how far does Calibre take pdf to epub conversion? I've been really interested in learning more about the epub file format and was greatly intrigued to discover it extends xhtml and is essentially a zip folder if I've gathered that much correctly.
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#49I have to admit I am not impressed. My first paper, which I tried to render, does not work properly; references are removed and rendered poorly, figures are misplaced and tables incomplete. Given that not all arXiv papers are under a permissive license and you do not have permission to do this , I would much prefer if you at least made sure that arxiv-vanity rendered papers do not show up in search results, e.g. by o…
a simple robot.txt deny rule should be sufficient to prevent the papers from getting indexed.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
bioRxiv doesn't expose LateX files, they explicitly only use PDFs to make things easier. Which means you're going to need to reflow PDFs (a la https://docushow.com/ ), and I would guess there are a lot more edge cases there
Thanks for linking to https://docushow.com Also a work in progress, but PDF reflow is a hard problem so you never ship if you want to solve all cases :) Your solution using the LaTex source generates really nice HTML, congrats!
Lovely idea, and I can't wait until it gains super deep-learning smarts and gets everything perfect :-)
For now, it's hard to read: https://docushow.com/viewdoc?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fp...