Re: getting out of LaTeX

In article <1156878731.998799.86220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
*** T. Winter wrote:
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About TeX/LaTeX:

And, o, it dates from 1983.

There was a word processor something like that, called Nota Bene. Back
in the days of DOS 3.1, it was the only one that could handle
right-to-left text, so it was popular with biblical scholars for a few
weeks. Some even persisted with it until recently, being content
without most of the features we take for granted in word processing.

I think that TeX/LaTeX could do a bit more. Like producing camera-ready
copies.

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I don't see why any one publication needs to be convertible between
Springer and AMS style; one never submits a paper to more than one
journal at a time, and the submitted draft is never identical to the
published product. (If a peer reviewer can't think of _something_ to
complain about, they won't feel they've done their job.)

Unless, of course, you are dealing in nothing but camera-ready copy, in
which case, what's the journal editor's function?

Most mathematics publishers ask for camera-ready copy. And the task
for the editor is to read the initial version, assign reviewers to it
and handle the process that follows. And also may state to the writer
that the paper is not suitable for that publication, but that other
publications might use it. In which case just switching the style
sheets works perfectly well.
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