[Haskell-cafe] More accessible papers

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:10:38 +0100,
Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

> Yes, but why don't researchers just publish their TEX file? You can 
> regard that as the "source code" for generating PDF/PS whatever no?

Yes. but things have a way of getting lost. The primary advantage to
embedding the data is you won't end up with the just .pdf and no way
to reproduce it.

As Neil points out, it is also only useful if the embedded data is
includes all the information needed to recreate the final .pdf --
which could make things trickier -- and greatly increase the size of
the .pdf.

Oh well.

j.