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

[Carlo De Franchis]

> >> Moreover, some people in a conference recently attended by Carlo
> >> say they want to be able to regenerate article files in other
> >> formats than the PDF provided by the publisher.
> >
> > That would be really great, and for me a motivating reason to
> > publish LaTeX sources.  What formats do they have in mind?
>
> Carlo, can you tell us more about it? And also maybe about the
> comments made by the audience?


At the Beyond the PDF 2 [1] conference, there was a presentation
titled "Why publishers should publish an XML file and nothing else".
The presenter was Kaveh Bazargan, from River Valley [2], a typesetting
company. He told that if publishers produce a good XML file, which
would be the definitive version of record, then all other formats can
be created automatically, and on the fly, from the XML. He made a demo
showing a multitude of PDF layouts created from one XML file.

Personally, I don't see the point in converting a tex source into XML.
But the main message of this presentation was to publish source files
of articles in a standard format.

Carlo

[1] http://www.force11.org/beyondthepdf2
[2] http://river-valley.com/

On 28 March 2013 11:53, Daniel Kondermann
<daniel.kondermann at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
>> Daniel Kondermann wrote:
>>> I think the basic idea is very nice, but plagiarism will be
>>> difficult to control.
>>
> Nicolas Limare wrote:
>> Doesn't plagiarism already exist now, even with few LaTeX sources
>> available? It seems that crook authors don't need our sources to steal
>> papers and send them to obscure conferences and journals.
>>
>> For a better example, for years and decades, the arXiv (830000 papers)
>> has asked (burt not required) authors to publish their LaTeX
>> source. And their FAQ exactly answers the objections raised here:
>
> I agree in that nothing can stop plagiarism, but sources definitely facilitate the process.
>
> So my next question would be what is the actual damage done by plagiarism?
> Perhaps we need digital rights management, stronger laws and severe punishments for anyone using a word which was originally appearing in my
> article? We could also add a pay-wall: the latex sources cost 99,999€ each. No, per line.
>
> To sum it up: you are right ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>
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