I think i’ve discovered something important in the field I dabble in as a advanced hobbyist. Like this was a breakthrough and perspective shift enough for me to stay awake all night into the morning until I had to go to sleep testing it works and boilerplating the abstract paper. I constructed a theoretical framework, practical implementation, and statistically analyzed experimental results across numerous test cases. I then put my findings into as good a technical paper as I could write up. I did as much research as I could to make sure nobody else had written about this before.
At this point though I don’t really know how to proceed. Im an outsider systems engineer not an academic, and arXiv requires you be endorsed/recognized as a member of the scientific community with like a college email or written recommendation by someone already known. Then whenever I look at the papers on arxiv they always look a very specific way I cant get with libreoffice writer. Theres apparently a whole bunch of rules on formatting and font and style and this and that. Its overwhelming and kind of scary.
So. What do i do here? I have something I think is important enough to get off my ass and get in touch with a local college to maybe get a recommendation. I’d like to have my name in the community and contribute.
Or you could learn typst! It’s like LaTeX, but solo much better!
afaik typst cannot be easily transpiled to latex. so even if it’s a better experience, it isn’t a good idea to write the a whole article in typst. most toolings in academic literature are built around latex.
Does arXiv support typst submissions? Even if they do, do journals?
The submission process depends on the journal. Some journals accept Tex files, some journals accept the PDF with formatting guidelines. It’s honestly annoying.
Typst Gang rise up!