[azangru]

> The arXiv of the future is format-neutral and separates format from content.

Didn't this use to be Latex's tagline? Separate format from content. Which the authors of the article don't find separate enough.

How does the proper separation of format from content even work? Don't you need to markup your content in order for it to become formatted?

[ssivark]

It’s fairly well separated from the perspective of being able to write content fairly agnostic of a presentation template, and then swap in the required publication template in the end (with a few cosmetic tweaks very occasionally).

But LaTeX is largely an extension of TeX, and these markup languages seem not very amenable to re-implementing parsing / automated processing (given numerous attempts that have resulted in stalemates).