ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by JumpCrisscross on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:44PM (#38726650)

Do you work extensively with LaTeX?

Two columns is good, albeit annoying on mobile. But the font. The typeface kills me, and almost every LaTeX-generated document sports it.

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by saurik on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:48PM (#38726708)

Hilariously, I would probably tolerate the HTML version a lot better if it had the font from the PDF (and FWIW, the answer for me is "no: I don't work with LaTeX at all... I just read a lot of papers").

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by folmar on Thursday December 21, 2023 @06:56PM (#38728908)

If you disable the font rule

  :root, [data-theme=light] {
    /* --text-font-family: "freight-sans-pro";
  }

it switches to "Noto Serif" that is way easier on the eyes.

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:47AM (#38731943)

I hard override the font in browser, designers never get it right.

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by borg16 on Friday December 22, 2023 @08:14AM (#38733807)

what is your font of choice?

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:19AM (#38735586)

Verdana

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by westurner on Friday December 22, 2023 @03:56PM (#38738585)

https://github.com/neilpanchal/spinzero-jupyter-theme /fonts/{cmu-text,cmu-mono} :

> "Computer Modern" is used for body text to give it a professional/academic look

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by cozzyd on Thursday December 21, 2023 @04:22PM (#38727140)

Hating on Computer Modern (ok, probably now Latin Modern) is something close to blasphemy.

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by kibwen on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:42PM (#38729341)

Computer Modern was not designed for easy viewing on screens (think about the screens Knuth would have been using in 1977), it was designed for printing in books.

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by jacobolus on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:37PM (#38729295)

Hating Computer Modern is entirely reasonable for anyone who cares about typography.

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Re:ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format by hollerith on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:27PM (#38729205)

I hate Computer Modern, and I'm not even particularly fussy about typefaces.

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