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0 pointseigenket2y ago0 comments

HTLM may be the standard for many things, but it is not the standard for academic papers. PDF is the standard.

PDF is the optimal format for this use-case, mostly because of existing tooling which makes it very easy to make academic papers as PDFs. As far as I know no tools exist to make something comparable to an academic paper which would improve view-ability on a small screen.

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BlueTemplar2y ago

What about GNU TeXmacs ?

http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html

(No direct relation to TeX or GNU Emacs.)

Though sadly this is not sufficient, we also have issues for HTML standardization for standalone documents, unlike, for say, PDF-A.

https://www.russellbeattie.com/notes/posts/the-decades-long-...

bobbylarrybobby2y ago

Ok then, PDF is a bad standard. HTML can do all the same stuff and more.

eigenketOP2y ago

PDF is not a bad standard, the priorities of the people producing scientific papers as pdfs are just not the same as your priorities.

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