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The Journal of Open Source Software
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Add abstract and full paper html rendering #879

Open sylvaticus opened 3 years ago

sylvaticus commented 3 years ago

Currently only the pdf version of a paper is available, not even the abstract.

However pdfs don't render well on mobiles, and are questionable on any screen type.. It would be much nicer to get a html rendering of the articles with just a "download pdf" for who need to print them.

arfon commented 3 years ago

This is something we're definitely interested in doing, but there is a maintenance burden to produce HTML output which is why we moved away from this.

One small point - JOSS papers don't actually have an abstract so we won't be displaying those any time soon :smile:

leomrtns commented 1 year ago

I was going to open an issue but my comment is close enough to this one :wink: The lack of a summary (wink wink) in text form makes it less inclusive. I am thinking about visual impairment, but PDFs are also suboptimal for other reasons (low bandwith, public/shared PCs or tablets, etc.)

I notice that the RSS does not contain the summary either, which makes the feed much less atractive. Maybe RSS would be easier than HTML with regards to adding the summary (or even the whole text)?

Perhaps offering the original paper.md markdown file for download would already be an improvement...

arfon commented 1 year ago

Note that we do create JATS XML these days (although we don't link to it from anywhere). Would this be an improvement?

leomrtns commented 1 year ago

@arfon for inclusiveness, I don't think so. I am not familiar with JATS XML but I guess you'd need something else to interpret it. XML would otherwise sound like gibberish to a screen reader. By the way I do not use a screen reader, but I remember from discussions that the goal should be HTML or TXT. I mentioned RSS since aggregators render it to HTML.

For other PDF limitations perhaps JATS XML is an alternative, but as I said I am not familiar with it --- which may be an indicator that it is (still) not so common as to be comparable to RSS/HTML...

sorry about the late reply, vacation mode kicking in :smile: