My colleague, Allyson Lister managed to post here entire thesis onto a commodity wordpress.
http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/phd-thesis-table-of-contents/ So, it is possible, even if it is rather unwieldy at the moment. In this case, she used latextowordpress which in turn uses plastex. Tex always presents the problem that the only thing that can sanely turn tex into output is tex. If you need proof of this, look up David Carlisles xii.tex. I'm hoping that luatex is finally going to crack this open, because it really needs to go there. The key point is the Ally tried, and from this we learnt. My own feeling is that a very simple step would be for conferences to stop requiring PDF. I'm happy with a number of tool chains for writing content; currently, though, when faced with "use exactly this guidelines with exactly this number of page" directives, there is not alternative but tex (for me). ________________________________________ From: Bo Ferri [[email protected]] Sent: 27 April 2013 13:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Publication of scientific research Hi all, generally, it is really interesting to follow this discussion. I've never been a friend of the cumbersome scientific research publishing way (that's why there are no real scientific publications available from myself - except the two theses that I wrote during my studies ;) ). So I'm really looking forward to a more webby for doing this since ages. When I wrote my final thesis in 2010/11 - I tried to publish as many content (section excerpts, slides, ontologies, code, ... e.g. [3, 4, 5]) on the web from my theses as I could. For a starting point Wordpress and Drupal are your friends (as Ivan already suggested). With semantic annotation plugins รก la RDFaCE [1] one could go even a step further. Other plugins such as Angelo's Wordpress extension [2] can deliver the metadata. However, finally I wrote the thesis itself in LaTeX and published (also on the Web, e.g., Mendeley or ResearchGate) as PDF, because I never found a good LaTeX to HTML converter that could handle my latex document in a satisfiable way. Fortunately, Authorea is exactly trying to do this for me. So I'll give it try with my theses (with so many web references inside ;) ) and let you know whether it is really able to handle a "real world" LaTeX document. At the end tools such as Authorea are the perfect bridge for the way we are trying to go now by bringing scientific research publishing to the present. Cheers, Bo [1] http://rdface.aksw.org/ [2] https://github.com/angelo-v/wp-linked-data [3] http://smiy.org [4] http://purl.org/smiy/ [5] http://zazi.smiy.org/slides/pmkb-defence/pmkb.html On 4/25/2013 8:21 AM, Herbert Van de Sompel wrote: > > There is evolution in this realm too, see e.g. https://www.authorea.com/ > > Greetings > > Herbert
