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I agree with both the Authorea folks and Paul (except on historical inaccuracies), and I think they are largely talking at cross purposes.
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The authoring format of the future will be abstracted away from authors - really it will be an intermediate storage format.
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I doubt it will be any XML DTD, and certainly not LaTeX - better tools will soon emerge. LaTeX solves a problem that will be better solved.
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The problems Paul highlights with HTML portability are actually solved by emerging technologies (vivliostyle, new CSS standards etc)
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Lot of work to be done making all that stuff accessible and building it in to actual production systems, but that's what we're doing ^_^
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It's not that journals will take papers in HTML - how you submit won't matter, but there'll be excellent HTML-native authoring tools
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All this stuff about fiddly word macros is dead - in a few years it will be gone. Open frameworks for robust arbitrary document conversion

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"LaTeX writers are the only scholars who waste precious time typesetting their manuscripts" False unless 'waste' = 'save'
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That's untrue, yeah. I don't see it as wasting time esp since I certainly take less time than wysiwyg users.
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*this = things
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To clarify I'm not, and the article is not against latex per se. Just against using it to compile pdfs as a default. HTML might be better as
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That's not what the article criticises.
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It's about how pdf centric is a passé notion.
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The reasons we liked LaTeX, separation of content and presentation layers, version control, fluent math serialisation, can now get elsewhere
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So why burden ourselves with a venerable solution when all that was good about it is also present in other non-wysiwyg tools.
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I disagree actually. Almost all of the problems the authors have would be resolved if arXiv provided TeX source instead of PDF.
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They used to. The history is in the article.
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