Dear TeXmacsers,

 

In the past there has been some frustration about the ArXiv policy towards submissions prepared with TeXmacs. Here's some information that might be helpful in this context (from current job offers at https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/):

 

 

TeX/LaTeX rationalization – arXiv accepts the bulk of its content in TeX format. We have TeX or LaTeX source for 90% of our articles. However, compiling all the TeX source we have into viewable papers (in PDF and increasingly also in HTML) can be difficult. We maintain a principle that we can rebuild any TeX submission accepted in the last 32 years. Preserving this capability, while being able to accept submissions that depend on the latest and greatest versions of TeX or LaTeX has become increasingly challenging. It is not unusual for a new release of TeX Live to include changes that cause older papers to no longer build properly. We have an opening for a TeX/LaTeX expert to rationalize our TeX pipeline. This task may include getting deeply involved in the TeX community and contributing to projects that support arXiv's goals.

 

I am sharing this for two reasons:

It's also interesting to reflect about forward renderability of documents composed today. I don't think the ArXiv requires that future builds are pixel-level similar to today's (as the presentation requirements such as maximum lengths are with the final publishers), but they seem to definitely have a serious problem with just getting a pdf output from older papers.

 

Best,

 

Álvaro.