> I expected that everybody would publish latex files (raw source, not PDFs) in computationally accessible formats, with raw data in easily parseable, semantic forms.
Do you realize that many researchers would be ashamed if others saw their latex code?
A friend worked for a journal, he kept a folder of the worst that he had ever seen, and could rant for hours one some gems. Including some papers that were beautifully typeset, about elegant combinatorics/type theory, and were coded on the latex equivalent of a spaceship cobbled with recycled plastic bottles, scraps and duct tape.
Do you imagine going through thousand lines macro tex file that grew over the years, when Latex is one of the worst mess ever, with conflicting packages, absurd syntactic 'features', and legacy crippling flaws that make debugging an horrible task?
Please, continue to compile your .tex.
Do you realize that many researchers would be ashamed if others saw their latex code?
A friend worked for a journal, he kept a folder of the worst that he had ever seen, and could rant for hours one some gems. Including some papers that were beautifully typeset, about elegant combinatorics/type theory, and were coded on the latex equivalent of a spaceship cobbled with recycled plastic bottles, scraps and duct tape.
Do you imagine going through thousand lines macro tex file that grew over the years, when Latex is one of the worst mess ever, with conflicting packages, absurd syntactic 'features', and legacy crippling flaws that make debugging an horrible task?
Please, continue to compile your .tex.