A total take down of LaTeX, according to authors it's destroying arXiv. Can't really disagree even tho I love LaTeX.https://twitter.com/LorenaABarba/status/878910194738188289 …
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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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