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>>legran+(OP)
Google: you are a web company. Please learn to publish your research papers as web pages.

>>simonw+d4
I expected to see some eldritch css monstrosity, but no, its just a pdf. A well formatted one, at that.

What’s your issue there?

>>orange+l5
Reading two column PDFs on a mobile phone sucks.

Plus I can't use web tools, like "Read this page" in Mobile Safari.

And copying and pasting is harder.

And I can't link to individual sections.

I'm honestly baffled by people who prefer PDFs for this kind of information. Are they printing them out on paper and going at them with a highlighter or something?

>>simonw+K5
Just my personal take, but when I have to read something carefully, I find it easier to do on paper.

For example, I recently wrote an article about taking random samples using SQL. Even though I was writing it for my blog, which is HTML, I proofread the article by rendering it as a PDF doc, printing it out, and reviewing it with a blue pen in hand.

What surprised me is that I also found it easier to review the article on the screen when it was in PDF format. TeX just does a way better job of putting words on a page than does a web browser.

Actually, if you want to do the comparison yourself, I'll put both versions online:

HTML: https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2024-08-23-sampling-with-sql....

PDF: https://blog.moertel.com/images/public_html/blog/pix-2024060...

I don't think either version is hard to read, but if I had my choice, I'd read the PDF version. But maybe that's just me.

Let me know which you prefer.