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by dginev 9mo ago
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 a new issue: https://github.com/brucem
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by dginev 10mo ago
You will be delighted. Feel free to inspect some sources.
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by dginev 10mo ago
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, but largely using the same technology.
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by dginev 10mo ago
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 others we can't - wrong colors, broken aspect ratios of fi
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by dginev 10mo ago
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 paper rendering. When they jump at you, please report them to u
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by dginev 10mo ago
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 for Science Stack, all the best with the endeavour! And I am c
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by dginev 1y ago
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 and then cached: https://docs.rs/rand/
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by dginev 1y ago
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
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by dginev 2y ago
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: https://github.com/d
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by dginev 3y ago
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 generally all contributors of latexml package support) t
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by dginev 3y ago
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 two-column theme, or left-aligned vs justified themes, could
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by dginev 3y ago
That's it in spirit, but in practice it's refreshed: https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-view-as-html
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by dginev 3y ago
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. Getting subfigures emulated via flexbox is one of our more recent
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by dginev 3y ago
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 nearly 20 years behind the scenes. 3. I was an undergraduate
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by dginev 3y ago
Wrong, arXiv was first. Check this HTML paper from 1997: https://arxiv.org/html/astro-ph/9708066
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by dginev 3y ago
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 feedback and improvements are integrated
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by dginev 3y ago
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 articles. This success rate is noticeably lower for the newest b
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by dginev 3y ago
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.
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by dginev 3y ago
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 well. I keep wondering if we should have several the
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by dginev 4y ago
Let's revisit your comment in a couple of years, when people actually have had the incentive to publish enough <math> elements out there. If no one uses it, it will eventually get phased out. I have just about a billion <math&
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by dginev 4y ago
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.
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Intent to Ship: MathML in Chromium(igalia.com)
31 points by dginev 4y ago|1 comments
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by dginev 4y ago
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 official arXiv blog announcement with a little bi
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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv(ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org)
118 points by dginev 4y ago|51 comments
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by dginev 5y ago
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, but I really don't want to, as I see it as crossing a
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by dginev 5y ago
Certainly, sorry for the confusion. There's actually multiple "we", since there are two institutions involved, and one foil character - I'm the only one responsible for ar5iv "the website", in a personal capaci
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by dginev 5y ago
Got it. So even with hyphenation, the gaps are still bad enough that you'd consider the current ar5iv rendering bumpy and distracting? I think I can see that, but it's almost there, which is why it feels like there has to be som
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by dginev 5y ago
Thanks!
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by dginev 5y ago
What's a Dartmouth?
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by dginev 5y ago
Same HTML backend generator (latexml), different frontends, and different coverage of arXiv. Also, ar5iv may disappear very quickly, since I am unsure if it's more helpful or harmful. But I'll definitely lean on the public attenti

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