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And yet again, it's only available as PDF (rather than the standard HTML), which is super annoying when you have no desire to print it out, especially to view on a small screen. Nor that is seems like this document benefits in any way to be pre-separated into discrete pages (unlike for say, slides).

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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.

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-...

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

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

You can display it in HTML too: https://academ.us/article/2305.17743/

Thanks! arXiv Vanity fails on this one: https://arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2305.17743

Well, this is just a first version, enabling to quickly prove they are the first. The coming days, the internets will be filled with many more webpages than can be possibly read. In the old days, you had to wait many months before something went from found to officially published.

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