[Haskell-cafe] More accessible papers

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Christopher L Conway wrote:

> style is attached (I'm sure many on the list already have it), in case
> Peter is feeling brave. Note that the ACM has several different

I'm feeling brave but tired ;-) Besides I'm spending all of my free time learning Haskell! :) I don't know tex at all, I just wanted to mention the unfortunate fact that people with bad eyes (or tired eyes, like mine) might have problems (well at least I have) reading this standard format. 

I did some Googling, and at first sight <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2006-May/002213.html> (but my sight is not that good ;-) creating a reflowable PDF from tex is not obvious. But it would already help a lot if instead of having two columns per page, we just had a single column, with less space between the margins, and using a >2x larger font. That can't be that hard I guess? 

Peter



Well, I would
Christopher L Conway wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007 2:57 PM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>>     
>>>  Although this is standard, it is not really accessible for people with
>>> people with bad vision, who prefer larger fonts. When you print this, the
>>> fonts are rather small. For those people, a reflowable PDF would make much
>>> more sense, so they can choose how big the fonts are on screen & paper.
>>>       
>> It is the standard for ACM workshops and conferences, which includes
>> ICFP and Haskell Workshop. All these PDF's are produced from a
>> standard Latex class file. If you wrote to people expressing this, and
>> did whatever magic is required to make the class file produce both the
>> current format and a reflowable PDF, you might get somewhere.
>>     
>
> Neil,
>
> The person responsible for this at the ACM is Gerry Murray
> (murray at hq.acm.org). He has been extremely responsive in the past when
> I have had problems with the class file. The standard ACM conference
> style is attached (I'm sure many on the list already have it), in case
> Peter is feeling brave. Note that the ACM has several different
> formats (e.g., journal vs. conference) and they would all need to be
> updated.
>
> Chris
>   

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