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ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

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Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

#21

Nice! Now I don’t need to manually replace arxiv with ar5iv. Congrats to the team.

"Our ultimate goal is to backfill arXiv’s entire corpus so that every paper will have an HTML version, but for now this feature is reserved for new papers."

For now it only works for papers submitted this month. But it's great to have this feature, makes it so much easier to read on phones.

Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

#22

This is a great UX addition. Why did it take them so long?

Latex is a very complicated programming language for creating documents. It is not easy to create a new backend for it.

As a glimpse into the very tip of the iceberg, this diagram is https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/158740/ generated with 100% Latex code.

Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

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Since the article doesn't link to any example HTML article, here's a random link: https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.12451v1 It's cool that it has a dark mode. Didn't see a toggle but renders in the system mode. Overall will make arXiv a lot more accessible on mobile.

And here's the PDF of the same paper for comparison: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.12451.pdf

The contrast is massive. I'm much more likely to read the html version; that PDF is deeply off-putting in some hard to define way. Maybe it's the two columns, or the font, or the fact that the format doesn't adjust to fit different screen sizes.

Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

#29
Like the maths noscript/basic (x)html wikipedia generator:

The magic of inline images at a known DPI, of course you can provide images for different DPIs.

Reading maths/science noscript/basic (x)html documents on my 100 DPI monitor, on wikipedia. Not yet fully ready on arxiv.

Re: ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

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Seems like the references aren’t working very well. I really want journals to have two way links in a paper. I get google scholar alerts about certain papers being cited, and I want to skip to “why did they cite this? Did they use it, improve it, it just mention it?”

Looks like clicking a reference adds the hash to the URL but doesn't scroll to the reference. If you load the hash URL directly in the browser you get a 404 page...

https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.12451v1#bib.bib1 works, but https://browse.arxiv.org/html/2312.12451v1/#bib.bib1 doesn't.
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