On Monday, 25.04.2005 at 17:40 +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote: > Dave Ewart <davee@sungate.co.uk> writes: > > > 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'?" ... :-/ > > Oh dear, I actually didn't know even scientific publishing was > infested by that crap such widely. Sincere condolences from my part. > Maybe you actually should switch to Math, one of the apparently few > save havens of proper reason ? :) Well, we're in the 'medical statistics' area and some of the more stats-y journals positively embrace LaTeX, which is good; they are hugely outweighed by the others though. /me goes off at a tangent Thing is, given the typographical errors which appear in first proofs from the "Send us Word only" journals, it is clear that they *re-type* the content by hand. And yet our researchers spend hours formatting their document etc. - which I've told them on numerous occasions is completely pointless ... :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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