Re: ArXiv hiring to rationalize their TeX pipeline

On 01/07/23 11:59, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> The problem is not the PDF, one can already submit PDFs to arXiv, 

For some time it was not possible to submit to the ArXiv pdfs generated 
by TeXmacs, I think it was very good that it became possible (the way it 
happened, I do not know, but perhaps the requests in various form counted).


>  I think something we can lobby for is a document format for technical 
> papers which then can be targeted by editors and easily converted in 
> other formats (LaTeX, TeXmacs, PDF,  HTML, ….) Still, this would be a 
> complex task, so for the moment a minimal subset of LaTeX could be ideal.

Some LaTeX subset that can be converted into other formats, rephrasing 
what I think you mean.