Re: Thesis/Dissertation authoring application
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Monday, 25.04.2005 at 14:12 +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
>
> > Anyway, you made a good remark. If not Tex, at least Postscript should
> > be accepted by such journals, and that can be produced from Tex input.
>
> If they want to change the layout and style of what you've written, then
> they'll probably prefer the source, rather than PS ...
>
Exactly. They're happy with PS/PDF for the submission/review phase, but
when it comes to sending the final product they want something they can
edit. And that means Word/RTF unless they have a smart production person
who knows *TeX.
> > I can't imagine what else they would want. E.g. is there really any
> > journal out there accepting submissions in MS Word or Rtf format only?
>
> Sadly, most journals view anything other than MS Word as alien. I've
> dealt with many (mainly medical) journals and normally a request to send
> TeX source is met with "WTF is 'tech'?" ... :-/
>
Same here - most sociology journals will take only Word/RTF, or plain text
in a pinch. I was pleasantly surprised with _Political Psychology_, which
did a good job with my LaTeX source.
ap
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