Yesterday I stumbled across a new thing which I think is very cool.
Usually if you want to read a paper posted on arXiv you have to view, e.g. a PDF file. Now someone has set up a facility to view every article as a modern HTML5 page. To use this function you just need to change the “X” in the link to an arXiv paper to a “5” and you can view the whole paper, equations and all, in your browser as a web page.
You can check this out using a recent paper from the Open Journal of Astrophysics:
Here is the standard arXiv link to the paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05639v2
Now try looking at
https://ar5iv.org/abs/2107.05639v2
I have found a few conversion errors using this facility but I assume these can be ironed out in due course. Now I have to persuade Scholastica to let us link to the ar5iv versions of OJAp papers (although I think the plan is to integrate ar5iv with arXiv at some point).
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