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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

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@oblomov this is every graphics paper I've ever read, new or old. The one that provoked this was from 2008.

@aeva @oblomov this is all Knuth's yakshaving. There is a group working on rerendering TeX as html now

@KevinMarks @aeva yeah, it's possible that an HTML version of the article exists in the publisher's website, at prohibitive costs 8-(