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Especially for reading on mobile this will be of great help.",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"15538892","deipoda","Great tool for mobile! Have to say I'm too used to PDFs on my laptop, although I can see this replacing it. Two suggestions- 1. Center the text to the screen 2. Justify the text…",{"value":111,"source":99,"evidence":112},"Useful concept for academic reading",[113,117],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"15536243","marknadal","Hallejuhah, we need to force academics and people who go around touting \"whitepapers\" to be ripped out of the proprietary PDF era of terrible UX\u002Freadability and into modern…",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"15537029","jpeloquin","This is really cool and has a lot of potential. Academic papers are dense and heavily cross-referenced, so experimenting with new display formats that do more to help the reader…",[122,141,156],{"value":123,"source":99,"evidence":124},"Many papers fail to render or show display errors",[125,129,133,137],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"15537610","beezle","It failed on all three papers I tried it on. https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F1710.05313 https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F1710.06689 https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F1710.07508",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"15536479","dbranes","Unfortunately it's failing on first things I tried with a not-so-helpful error message: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.arxiv-vanity.com\u002Fpapers\u002F1608.04012\u002F…",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"15535805","j2kun","Looks like it's failing to process some standard tex commands (e.g. \\textup) as well as some user defined macros. See the many display errors in…",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"15537095","rundigen12","Tried three papers: \"Could not find Arxiv ID in that URL. Are you sure it's an arxiv.org URL?\" Why, yes, I copied-and-pasted directly from the browser tab showing the Arxiv URL.…",{"value":142,"source":99,"evidence":143},"Some readers prefer PDF for layout and print",[144,148,152],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"15536865","KGIII","I'm not sure I understand. Well, I understand what you're doing but I'm not sure why you'd dislike PDF. PDF has the great benefit of rendering the same on every system. With very…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"15535789","leephillips","In all three cases I find the original PDFs more pleasant to read. HTML typography is not up to snuff. I read them on a laptop, however, and I can see that this would be useful…",{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"15535215","Cacti","Great job! 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Would be even better if the references are urls to other papers.",{"value":180,"source":99,"evidence":181},"Browser extension to jump from arXiv to Arxiv Vanity",[182,186],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"15536021","Eridrus","This is cool, it would be nice to have a chrome extension to take me directly to this from the page\u002Fpdf.",{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"15535827","stefco_","This is a superb idea! Still not working on some of the papers I read, but hopefully it will soon. I would love to see a bookmarklet that lets me hop from an arxiv page straight…",{"value":191,"source":99,"evidence":192},"Support more LaTeX packages and macros",[193,194],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"15535925","auggierose","Not really my use case as I read PDF papers on an iPad Pro 12.9 inch, which is just fine, but very neat work! 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That should be able to do that and the comments about results are usually positive. https:\u002F\u002Fpandoc.org\u002Fepub.html One final thing, and wildly off topic, is…",{"value":231,"source":53,"evidence":232},"arxiv-sanity",[233],{"id":234,"by":11,"text":235},"15536987","A bit of wordplay on our favourite Arxiv tool. :) http:\u002F\u002Farxiv-sanity.com\u002F",{"value":237,"source":99,"evidence":238},"pdf2htmlEX",[239],{"id":240,"by":241,"text":242},"15538836","strin","Great work. I've also been working on a similar open-source project \"Sharead\". https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fstrin\u002Fsharead It has a chrome extension that uploads Arxiv papers, and you can…",{"comments":244,"answered":245,"key":246},14,6,[247,248,251],{"id":56,"text":57},{"id":249,"text":250},"15535240","A lot of things. LaTeX and its packages have so much surface area. Our approach so far is to just make the papers that we read readable. 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