An Approach to Creating an HTML Version of a Scientific Article from a Manuscript in MS Word Format for a Low-Budget Publisher
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The most common approach to creating an HTML version of a journal article among scientific publishers is to first create an XML version of the article in accordance with the NISO Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) standard, followed by automatic conversion to HTML and PDF formats. However, obtaining an XML version from a manuscript in the .docx format of the MS Word word processor, often used by authors, when it contains a large number of complex formulas and tables is a difficult task. The existing software either does not cope with it in full or is expensive and inaccessible to small publishers with a limited budget. This paper proposes an approach to creating an HTML version of a journal article from a manuscript in .docx format containing formulas in MathType format, which does not require significant financial and time costs from the publisher. It also describes a currently implemented prototype of an underlied this approach converter of scientific articles from .docx format to HTML and JATS XML formats, which is applicable for KIAM preprints.
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