Website

Paper previews

The Publications page shows pre-rendered AVIF paper thumbnails. Previews are hidden on mobile (600px and below) to leave the text full width. Images are checked in as images/papers/<publication-filename>.avif, so site builds do not fetch or render PDFs. Links and rendering sources come from each publication's front matter. To generate previews for new papers:

uv run scripts/generate-paper-previews.py

uv installs the dependencies declared in the script automatically. The generator prefers local PDFs, then downloads linked PDFs or arXiv papers. Existing previews are reused; use --force to refresh them, or --only 2023-mosaic --source papers/2023-Mosaic-VIS.pdf to supply a PDF explicitly. Entries without previews use a shared generic AVIF paper image. The generator also renders this fallback from its checked-in SVG source. Downloads are cached in the system temporary directory. Commit the generated images with their publication entries. For papers in a combined proceedings PDF, set preview_page in the publication front matter to the paper's page number (starting at 1). For a supplied cover image without a public PDF, set preview_image to its repository-relative path. Keep these originals in scripts/paper-preview-sources/, which is excluded from the built site; the preview is displayed without a PDF link.

Write

bundle exec jekyll post "My New Post"

Run

bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload

Run with Docker

docker run \
  --volume="$PWD:/srv/jekyll" \
  -p 4000:4000 -p 35729:35729 \
  -it jekyll/jekyll \
  jekyll serve --livereload