A few glitches with IEEE template and bibilography

[SubtleMuffin]

I worked out a minimal example that can reproduce the problem:

main.tex

\documentclass[conference,10pt]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\title{Example Paper}

\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Author1 Name1 \IEEEauthorrefmark{1}, and Author2 Name2 \IEEEauthorrefmark{2}}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}University of One, City, State, Country
\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}University of Two, City, State, Country}}


\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\begin{IEEEkeywords}
Keyword 1, Keyword 2
\end{IEEEkeywords}

\section{Example Section}

\lipsum[2]~\cite{paper1}

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{ref}

\end{document}

and ref.bib

@article{paper1,
  title={{Paper Title}},
  author={Author1, Name1 and Author2, Name2},
  journal={Journal 1},
  volume={1},
  number={1},
  year={2023}
}

Except for the font issue, mentioned in dginev/ar5ivist#3, the glitches are highlighted in the red circles:

[dginev]

Hey @SubtleMuffin - thanks for the report! I will transfer this to the ar5iv repository, and you are welcome to file "conversion quality" issues there.

ar5ivist is a bit of an intermediate repo that focuses on the Dockerfile, so I don't want to get too many unrelated issues here (or I'll forget them).

[dginev]

@SubtleMuffin took a quick look - the arXiv submission pipeline doesn't actually process bibliography files (via bibtex, biber, etc) but instead expects the authors to do so locally, and submit the final .bbl file that is produced from the bibliography runs.

Details at: https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit_tex.html#include-bbl-files-if-you-use-bibtex

If you had a main.bbl file alongside main.tex, the ar5ivist run should work out. I have explicitly disabled the bib processing there, to stick close to the arXiv pipeline. In a way it is a feature, but maybe we need a better warning message to signal why the .bib was ignored.

As to the author mark, that needs a small PR in latexml, to upgrade the current stub line:
https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML/blob/98b210208032568d4cf11de188ce0329283b8cef/lib/LaTeXML/Package/IEEEtran.cls.ltxml#L161

[SubtleMuffin]

Whoa thanks for the explanation!

Re bib: is it possible to enable the bibtex feature if we intend to?

Re author mark: cool! Can't wait for it to merge!