Great God developed the new H5 version of arXiv, saying goodbye to formula typography errors in one step, and mobile phones can also easily read literature

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arXiv It is a website that almost every researcher must use , But it's fast 31 year 了 .

1991 Year of the birth of arXiv, Website layout seems to be out of tune with this era .

Especially in today's mobile network popularization , Scientific research literature generally uses two columns of typesetting , You can't see it on your mobile phone without zooming in PDF.

Although there are arXiv-vanity Such a web page , But do you see that the following typesetting will not lead to a surge in blood pressure ？

In order to enable you to conduct scientific research more efficiently , Recently a programmer developed a ar5iv Website , take arXiv Medium X Instead of 5, namely HTML5 edition arXiv.

It can be modern HTML5 The format shows the paper . Let's take a look at the display effect first ：

LaTeX The formula is accurate .

Let's see how the mobile version works ：

Even on narrow mobile pages , The browsing experience remains good , You can also call the mobile phone's own translation dictionary . How dare you say you don't have time to read the literature in the future ？（doge）

According to the Deyan Ginev The developer introduced , at present ar5iv Already included 175 Ten thousand The paper , About occupy arXiv The sum of 97%.

ar5iv characteristic

ar5iv Is very simple to use , Just put the arXiv Medium X Switch to 5 Enter again , The page will automatically jump .

It usually takes only a second or two , The web version of the paper flashed in front of us ：

Like the one at the beginning arXiv-vanity The problem of disorderly typesetting ,ar5iv It doesn't exist at all ：

When adjusting the browser width , Formula layout is still not disordered ：

and ar5iv And support Right click to copy the formula LaTeX Code ：

Compared with simple arXiv-vanity,ar5iv It has the following characteristics ：

• Optimize the large screen display , Especially suitable Firefox;
  

• Support mobile browser ;
  

• Text alignment , With hyphens ;
  

• Support light color / Dark mode switch ;
  ……
  

Development ar5iv Of Deyan Geniv Think , The public needs an easy-to-use web page TeX/LaTeX Typesetting .

Currently in Erlangen - He was a doctor at Nuremberg University , Under study LaTeXML, It's a way to LaTeX convert to XML、HTML Tools for .

In fact, as early as more than ten years ago, some people studied arXiv convert to LaTeX, With NLP Technological development , The accuracy of this conversion has also been significantly improved .

As an open source project LaTeXML One of the contributors to ,Geniv So we developed ar5iv.

Netizens develop one click conversion plug-ins

This wave of operation looks like , The research friends were really shown , stay Twitter Have a heated discussion with the author on , Offer advice and suggestions one after another .

Some of them go further , I wonder if I can create a browser plug-in , Simplify the use ar5iv Steps for .

Brother, have you considered a plug-in for one click Format switching , No need to change the letters manually ？

Unexpectedly, some enthusiastic netizens did a .

Just in GitHub Download a plug-in library from （ Link at the end of the article ）, Or go straight to Chrome App store download withAr5iv.

So the next time I open my paper , You can convert the format with one click , Click again to convert back to the original format ：

However, some netizens have noticed ar5iv Some of the current shortcomings .

One problem that has been reflected more is , For papers with multiple revisions ,ar5iv Only papers can be displayed v1 edition ：

When converting papers, only v1 edition , But in arXiv Upper point “PDF” The latest version is displayed at .

The author has collected all these opinions , Express hope and arXiv Cooperate , Solve the problems of the latest version together .

Browser plug-in ：
https://github.com/yobibyte/ar5iv_chrome_ext

Reference link ：
[1]https://ar5iv.org/
[2]https://twitter.com/dginev/status/1488157927001268231
[3]https://kwarc.info/people/dginev/