I know this is both controversial and brave of me to say, but I really hate the "two-column paper" format. {lastname}%y.pdf why are you like this.
If we lived in the parallel universe where Zefram Cochrane doesn't shoot the Vulcan, this would all just be hypertext! Just HTML with a tasteful stylesheet. Oh, that reference to another paper looks interesting? Just click on it and have a lookaroo
@aeva OTOH HTML still sucks at certain kinds of layout, so in landscape it has a catastrophically suboptimal usage of space. Would be nice if there was a way to have it auto-layout columns in HTML, scrolling horizontally instead of vertically. But such is life.
@oblomov it's better than two columns of 4pt font. my eyes are fucked up I can't read this shit without putting the paper into "landscape mode"
@aeva jesus crhist are you reading articles from the 1960s or what
@oblomov this is every graphics paper I've ever read, new or old. The one that provoked this was from 2008.
@KevinMarks @aeva yeah, it's possible that an HTML version of the article exists in the publisher's website, at prohibitive costs 8-(