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Comment author: wedrifid 21 June 2012 06:47:59AM *  0 points [-]

Of course, there's no reason academic papers can't be provided in multiple formats; PDF, HTML, ePUB and MOBI should all be doable. I'd like to help SI with this.

Ciphergoth, talk to me! I'm the most technical of the guys Luke has producing his papers and Luke has recently had me investigating the possibility of alternate publication formats. In particular I have looked at the production of HTML formats for display on the website. Definitely possible but based on the various obstacles that would need to be overcome and the time estimate I gave him Luke has put that side project on hold.

If you have an easier or more effective way to produce such alternate formats or want to help do it we would both appreciate it and it would be a great improvement to the website - especially if Luke also gets someone to produce some elegant and website-matching .css to go with the HTML.

I believe you have mentioned elsewhere that you (or your work) has access to some high quality file conversion tools? I was also impressed with the Python scripting you have done for grabbing the sequences.

If you want to look into this further contact me either here or at cameron.taylor [at] singinst.org. I can give you access to source LaTeX documents for you to see if your multiple output ideas will work and compare notes regarding what SingInst specific difficulties there are. If it turns out that there are things we need to do at the LaTeX template and .tex source document level in order to make multiple output possible I can take care of that - at least I am almost certain that Luke will be willing to allocate me to working with you on this to facilitate you giving us multiple output capabilities.

Comment author: dbaupp 21 June 2012 08:58:14AM *  1 point [-]

I'm sure ciphergoth can handle this, but Pandoc is quite well regarded, I believe. There is an online version that someone could quickly experiment with to see how appropriate it is.

(That said, I'm not sure how well it handles LaTeX input.)

Comment author: wedrifid 21 June 2012 09:15:58AM 0 points [-]

I'm sure ciphergoth can handle this, but Pandoc is quite well regarded, I believe. There is an online version that someone could quickly experiment with to see appropriate it is.

Pandoc is what I have looked at so far. The results are impressive but a bunch of difficulties remain.

Comment author: ciphergoth 21 June 2012 12:15:31PM 0 points [-]

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