[IPOL discuss] publishing the LaTeX source of IPOL articles?

[Miguel Colom]

> What do you think about publishing the LaTeX source of IPOL articles
> on ipol.im, for example as supplementary materials? I see a few
> benefits: [...]

In my very personal opinion, normally one doesn't need to reproduce a  
large text with formulas in a new article. And if it's done, perhaps  
it'd have been better to cite the formulas from the original article  
than reproducing them.

I understand that it could be useful for those users that aren't LaTeX  
experts, so they can copy and paste portions of code, but I don't  
think this is a sufficient reason. There're other much more adequate  
sources of information on how to write proper LaTeX.

However, I think that putting in the web (below the PDF preview) links  
to the referred articles is worth doing. Ideally, it could be done  
automatically parsing the Bibtex file and getting the title, authors  
and DOI entries. In practice, some manual work would be needed.