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In article <267@unirot.UUCP> patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) writes:

   Path: duke!mcnc!rutgers!unirot!patwood
   From: patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood)
   Newsgroups: comp.text
   Date: 12 Aug 87 02:27:06 GMT
   Article-I.D.: unirot.267
   Posted: Tue Aug 11 22:27:06 1987
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   Reply-To: patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood)
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   The third way to get everyone at the publisher mad at you is to do the
   typesetting yourself, submitting final, camera-ready copy for printing!

   Perhaps it makes them worry about their job security.
   Pat Wood

I think the real reason camera-ready copy upsets most publishers is
like the reason David Steinberg once gave for being upset about
masturbation: not that it is being done, but that it is being done
*badly.* 

At least with fiction, where payment is by the word, the reason for
non-typeset double spaced text for submission is (a) it is easier to see
the marks for composition into the house style than to catch all the
places where the font changes to double-ugly hungarian italic bold, and
(b) it is easy to calculate the word-count by multiplying the number of
pages by 250, which doesn't work with atypical kerned text.
-- 
Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm)