Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

texmacs-users - Re: arXiv

Subject: mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

List archive

Re: arXiv


Chronological Thread 
  • From: Frank <address@hidden>
  • To: Christopher Dimech <address@hidden>,address@hidden
  • Cc: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: arXiv
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 14:30:10 +0000

Hi all,

The LaTeX export is lossy and one needs to modify the code to achieve an
output somehow similar to that of TeXmacs. It is definitively easier if they
(arXiv) support the pdf exported by TeXmacs, or tm files but I would expect
that this is quite impossible.

Best wishes,
Frank

于 July 10, 2021 2:01:49 PM UTC, Christopher Dimech <address@hidden> 写到:
>Would it not be easier if you can export a latex version, and send that
>for arXiv. TeXmacs has its own typesetting engine, but it's format
>
>as with xml is almost impossible to work with from source. That is the
>fundamental criticism about TeXmacs. It's design is not
>
>germaine to use from source.
>
>
>
>----- Christopher Dimech
>Administrator General - Naiad Informatics - Gnu Project
>
>Society has become too quick to pass judgement and declare someone
>Persona Non-Grata, the most extreme form of censure a country can
>bestow.
>
>In a new era of destructive authoritarianism, I support Richard
>Stallman. Times of great crisis are also times of great
>opportunity. I call upon you to make this struggle yours as well !
>
>https://stallmansupport.org/
>https://www.fsf.org/ https://www.gnu.org/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>.
>
>
>
>Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2021 at 1:23 AM
>From: "Basile Audoly" <address@hidden>
>To: "texmacs-users" <address@hidden>
>Subject: arXiv
>
>Dear TeXmacs users,
>
>arXiv is blocking submissions from TeXmacs. I have submitted for the
>following bug report with them. I would encourage you to send a similar
>email if you encounter difficulties. Maybe they will take it seriously
>if many of us complain?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Basile
>
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I am writing my papers using GNU TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org), a
>wonderful, free, multi-platform editor for scientific documents. Its
>name might be misleading but TeXmacs is *not* related to TeX/LaTeX: it
>has its own typesetting engine.
>
>When I submit to arXiv a PDF file produced with TeXmacs, it is
>incorrectly recognized as being produced by LaTeX, and the submission
>process is blocked until I provide the latex sources which do not
>exist. This makes it effectively impossible to submit TeXmacs document
>to arXiv. This is very unfortunate as TeXmacs is a great software,
>arguably superior to LaTeX in several aspects.
>
>I am attaching a sample TeXmacs document. I am hoping that you can
>either correct your LaTeX detection algorithm so that similar documents
>do not get erroneously blocked, or let me know which properties of the
>PDF document exactly are used to tag it as being produced LaTeX, so I
>can help the TeXmacs developers identify a work-around.
>
>TeXmacs is a great free software that needs encouragements from our
>community and not additional barriers.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>(your name here)
>
>

--
使用 K-9 Mail 发送自我的Android设备。


  • arXiv, Basile Audoly, 07/10/2021
    • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/10/2021
      • Re: arXiv, Frank, 07/10/2021
      • Re: arXiv, Basile Audoly, 07/10/2021
        • arXiv, Christopher Dimech, 07/12/2021
      • Re: arXiv, Giovanni Piredda, 07/10/2021

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.19.

Top of Page