" Yes, but what makes HTML better for being webby than PDF?" Because it is a mark-up language (albeit largely syntactic) which makes it much more amenable to machine processing?
-----Original Message----- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 03 October 2014 21:15 To: Diogo FC Patrao Cc: Phillip Lord; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access) On 10/03/2014 10:25 AM, Diogo FC Patrao wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > One problem with allowing HTML submission is ensuring that reviewers can > correctly view the submission as the authors intended it to be viewed. > How would you feel if your paper was rejected because one of the reviewers > could not view portions of it? At least with PDF there is a reasonably > good chance that every paper can be correctly viewed by all its reviewers, > even if they have to print it out. I don't think that the same claim can > be made for HTML-based systems. > > > > The majority of journals I'm familiar with mandates a certain format > for > submission: font size, figure format, etc. So, in a HTML format > submission, there should be rules as well, a standard CSS and the > right elements and classes. Not different from getting a word(c) or latex > template. This might help. However, someone has to do this, and ensure that the result is generally viewable. > > > Web conference vitally use the web in their reviewing and publishing > processes. Doesn't that show their allegiance to the web? Would the use > of HTML make a conference more webby? > > > As someone said, this is leading by example. Yes, but what makes HTML better for being webby than PDF? > > dfcp > > > > peter >
