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		jvanderbot on Feb 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Replace the X with a 5 in arXiv.org to di... Before you get too excited: "We are usually at least a month behind the live arXiv article list. Also, we can only serve papers submitted with their LaTeX sources." Moderate excitement is probably warranted, though.

dynm on Feb 1, 2022 | [–]

If a paper is prepared in latex, arxiv will detect that and insist that the sources are included. (They compile the pdf themselves.) So I think the second point shouldn't be much of a problem in fields where everyone uses latex.

burtonator on Feb 3, 2022 | [–]

Anyone know what % of papers are submitted with their LaTeX sources?

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