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Article #5319Re: TeXhax Digest V88 #87
From: Thomas Gordon
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1988 08:09
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1988 08:09
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From article <23523@labrea.Stanford.EDU>, by TeXhax@Score.Stanford.EDU (TeXhax Digest): > > Let's try to play the devil's advocate............ > > Some scientific journals allow authors to submit articles > in the form of TeX code. I have two reasons not to be > overly enthousiastic about this. ... > > I don't want to see a layman's layout anymore than I want to > study a layman's articles. > Perhaps such concerns make it clear why the Association of American Publishers, AAP, is pushing SGML, Standard Generalized Markup Language, an ISO standard for marking the logical components of manuscripts (footnotes, references, titles, author ...) rather than the visual layout. Authors are responsible for the content and structure of their manuscripts, but publishers remains responsible for typesetting. The AAP has published a set of "document types" for describing scientific manuscripts, including mathematical formulas. -- Thomas F. Gordon email: thomas@gmdxps.uucp GMD / F3 phone: (+49 2241) 14-2665 Schloss Birlinghoven D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRG
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!gmdzi!thomas From: thomas@gmdzi.UUCP (Thomas Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V88 #87 Message-ID: <843@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 88 08:09:21 GMT References: <23523@labrea.Stanford.EDU> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 28