It will be great if I can bookmark the position where I quit reading a paper.
Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
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Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#52We 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'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF.
PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very few exceptions, PDF will look exactly the same on every system and will print the same on every system.
HTML doesn't really have that same benefit.
Don't get me wrong, I think your service is a great idea for those who would like HTML formatted results, but I'm not understanding the complaint about PDF.
Could you expand on why you don't like PDF?
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#53I 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…
"Some papers do not render correctly, for example figures and tables in mine [1][2]. Beside that, some articles may not be posted under a permissive license, so you want to double check that you're not running into copyright violation troubles by modifying or publishing them.
[1] https://... [2] https://..."
Sounds a lot more positive and might get better results than being as adversarial and negative (imo) as the original comment?
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#54We 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'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF. PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very few exceptions, PDF will look exactly the same on every system and will print the same on every system. HTML doesn't really have that same benefit. Don't get me wrong, I think your service is a great idea for those who would like HTML format…
Not the OP, but PDF is bad on tablets and horrible on phones.
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#55We 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…
This is cool, it would be nice to have a chrome extension to take me directly to this from the page/pdf.
Yes! This is a great idea, and something we have been thinking of. https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/arxiv-vanity/issues/67
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#56We 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?
Have you seen pandoc? That should be able to do that and the comments about results are usually positive.
One final thing, and wildly off topic, is that when you do your defense, remember that you probably know more about the specifics of the subject than anyone else in the room. Many folks stress over it, but you're almost certainly going to be the actual expert in the room. Good luck!
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#57You might add a contact link so people can easily get in touch. The first-listed personal homepage is kind of insane with all the flashing colors, and it contains dead links (e.g., your Twitter).
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF. PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very few exceptions, PDF will look exactly the same on every system and will print the same on every system. HTML doesn't really have that same benefit. Don't get me wrong, I think your service is a great idea for those who would like HTML format…
Not the OP, but PDF is bad on tablets and horrible on phones.
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Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#59Why PDFs in the first place? They're hard to write, hard to format, hard to generate, and they do no good at all to anyone.
HTML is better read, smaller, faster, has more formatting options, and can have all contained in a single file.
Seriously, stop creating PDFs.
Re: Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
#60We 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'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF. PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very few exceptions, PDF will look exactly the same on every system and will print the same on every system. HTML doesn't really have that same benefit. Don't get me wrong, I think your service is a great idea for those who would like HTML format…
> HTML doesn't really have that same benefit.
Yes, it does.