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[Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>]

I could post an issue in the bug tracker of the ArXiv 
(https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-base/issues), but I would like to hear 
from you before I do that. Do you think it is better classifying it 
under "bug" or something else?

G.

Am 19.11.2021 um 16:29 schrieb TeXmacs:
> Dear Giovanni,
>
> If someone could get a patch accepted that solves this problem at ArXiv,
> then that would be very nice.  But I personally have no time for this;
> I just changed 'TeXmacs' to 'T e X m a c s' for the Pdf creator;
> this is a bit ugly, bit it will do for now.
>
> Best wishes, --Joris
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 02:48:15PM +0000, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
> > Maybe the examination of the code in https://github.com/arXiv could
> > also help.
> >
> > Perhaps they accept pull requests.
> >
> > Giovanni
> >
> >
> > Am 19.11.2021 um 11:49 schrieb TeXmacs:
> > > Dear Basile,
> > >
> > > Thanks for this extremely useful feedback.
> > >
> > > It is still annoying to not use our real name for the creator/producer.
> > > If I make it 'T e X m a c s', then does that work?
> > >
> > > Best wishes, --Joris
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 07:49:47AM +0100, Basile Audoly wrote:
> > > > Dear Joris,
> > > >
> > > > I did a few more tests. Bottomline is that arXiv rejects any PDF document that matches 
> > > > the string "*tex*" in the /Creator or /Producer fields, and the match is 
> > > > case-insensitive.
> > > >
> > > > Changing fonts actually has no effect (contrary to what I was writing before).
> > > >
> > > > To be specific, changing both /Creator or /Producer to 'T.Xmacs' works, but 
> > > > changing to 'Texmacs' or 'GNU Texmacs' fails.
> > > >
> > > > TeX Gyre fonts (Bonum) works just as well, even though "TeX" appears in the 
> > > > /BaseFont field: this field seems to be ignored (which makes sense).
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Basile
> > > >
> > > > > Le 11 nov. 2021 à 19:54, TeXmacs <address@hidden> a écrit :
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Basile,
> > > > >
> > > > > This is a very interesting hack.
> > > > > It would be nice to have some volunteers to investigate this further.
> > > > >
> > > > > Question 1: if you replace 'TeXmacs' by 'Texmacs' or 'GNU Texmacs' instead of 
> > > > > 'T.Xmacs', does it still work?
> > > > >
> > > > > Question 2: could someone please try with any of the TeX Gyre fonts (which 
> > > > > also have TeX in their name)?
> > > > >
> > > > > Question 3: if you replace 'Computer Modern' with 'Knuth's Modern Font' and 
> > > > > (if necessary) occurrences of
> > > > >   CMR, CMMI, CMEX, etc. with something else (just on lines with /FontName or 
> > > > > /BaseFont), then does this
> > > > >   also do the trick?
> > > > >
> > > > > Best wishes, --Joris
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 06:52:11PM +0200, Basile Audoly wrote:
> > > > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > arXiv incorrectly identifies PDF documents produced by TeXmacs as if they had 
> > > > > > been produced by LaTeX and blocks them, see my previous email.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here a dirty but simple hack to work around this:
> > > > > > * change the document font from Computer Modern (a.k.a. Roman) to Optima—any 
> > > > > > other font except CM will probably work as well
> > > > > > * export to PDF
> > > > > > * open the PDF document in emacs, search for the string "TeXmacs" and replace the two 
> > > > > > occurrences corresponding to the PDF Creator and Producer with "T.Xmacs"
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Of course, this prevents arXiv from being aware of the full content of the 
> > > > > > document. Exporting to LaTeX is still a viable (but more complicated) 
> > > > > > alternative.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Basile