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306 points pcfwik | 3 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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laacz ◴[30 Mar 25 07:49 UTC] No.43522240[source]▶
I really like this. Reminds me of ezines and webzines. However, I'm tempted to ask - how to comfortably read this on a computer if you don't have a reasonably good vision? Either you have to scroll up and down to follow the content, or you see whole page at once, but need to squint to read contents.
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yu3zhou4 ◴[30 Mar 25 08:22 UTC] No.43522399[source]▶
Agreed! If we went full latex, it could be make a two way like arxiv recently did with html5 rendering of latex
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1. gynvael ◴[30 Mar 25 08:56 UTC] No.43522586[source]▶
Sadly that's not doable for us. LaTeX, for all its benefits, has terrible user experience and would drive away a lot of authors. One of the benefits of using PDFs is that anyone can use almost any tool they feel comfortable with to make the article (except for Photoshop - we banned Photoshop PDFs because they are ridiculously constructed). For example, I use Google Slides for my articles (which seems like a weird choice, but it's so easy to do complex one-of formatting in it).
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2. yu3zhou4 ◴[30 Mar 25 08:59 UTC] No.43522595[source]▶
That is a reasonable tradeoff for sure. I’m still thinking what could we do to improve readibility on mobile devices though
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3. gynvael ◴[30 Mar 25 09:15 UTC] No.43522693[source]▶
Yeah. I don't think it's a solvable problem, but ideas are always welcome :)