Re: Technical challenges (Was Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper)

Actually LaTeXML seems to do pretty much I what I was thinking about:
http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/manual/usage/usage.single.html#SS0.SSS0.P7

Could be packaged in a more user-friendly way though.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Martynas Jusevičius
<martynas@graphity.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> is there any established and/or widely supported LaTeX XML schema?
>
> I have found several projects, but not sure how much they're used:
> - http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/
> - http://getfo.org/texml/
> - http://www-sop.inria.fr/marelle/tralics/
>
> If there would be an agreed XML schema, it would be trivial to provide
> templates for different styles using XSLT+CSS.
>
>
> Martynas
> graphity.org
>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Ali SH <asaegyn+out@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sarven, great work! We definitely need more initiatives like yours.
>>
>> It seems to me a big hindrance to this adoption is more sociologically than
>> technological.
>>
>> A quick suggestion - in the current thread we have people saying HTML/RDFa
>> --> LaTeX - why not the other way around?
>>
>> Having LaTeX --> HTML/RDFa would bridge the gap. People who are writing
>> papers can continue writing them in LaTeX, and when they're done, they
>> simply publish as HTML/RDFa using a LaTeX plug-in?
>>
>> This helps reduce the activation energy for the shift for more Linked Data
>> friend formats, as people don't really need to change their writing
>> practices (at least the LaTeX people), and would immediately generate a
>> Linked Data ready format.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2014-10-01 22:32, Pablo N. Mendes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It may help to preemptively address concerns here. Does anyone have a
>>>> HTML+CSS(+RDFa) template that looks exactly like the LNCS-formatted
>>>> PDFs? Can we show that papers using this template:
>>>> - look consistent with each other (follow the LNCS typesetting
>>>> instructions)
>>>> - look the same as the PDF counterparts
>>>> - look the same in any reader
>>>> - look the same on screen and printed
>>>> - can be read both online and offline
>>>> - have the same or smaller file size
>>>> - make it easy to share with others (all in one file?)
>>>>
>>>> Can LaTeX to HTML be achieved easily with this template? Or at least is
>>>> it as easy yo write this HTML as it is to write in LaTeX?
>>>>
>>>> I feel like this thread warrants a "manifesto" with a backing github
>>>> repo where everybody interested can chip in.
>>>
>>>
>>> The core of your concerns were addressed over the past few years in
>>> different ways on this mailing list. When some posed the situation as a
>>> "technological" problem, I've created some templates and LNCS and ACM
>>> styles:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/csarven/linked-research
>>>
>>> Reached out to OCs, supervisors, and authors. They all have a part in
>>> this. Even wrote "manifestos":
>>>
>>> * http://csarven.ca/linked-research
>>>
>>> * http://csarven.ca/call-for-linked-research
>>>
>>>
>>> How about we try to solve a different problem? The one that I've posed:
>>> will SW/LD conferences encourage the community to eat their own dogfood for
>>> "papers"? We can certainly improve on whatever needs to be improved over
>>> time. The problem is that, if SW/LD technologies are not even welcome to
>>> share scientific knowledge at these conferences, it is irrelevant to worry
>>> about the technological comparisons.
>>>
>>> We have a Social Problem 101. Period.
>>>
>>> -Sarven
>>> http://csarven.ca/#i
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> (•`'·.¸(`'·.¸(•)¸.·'´)¸.·'´•) .,.,

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