[pracjourn-forum] Re: [pracjourn] comment on 2005-2-flom Rev. 2005-04-18

[Lance Carnes]

Dear Tze KWANG Teo,

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At 05:18 PM 4/23/2005, you wrote:
>Peter Flom is correct in noting that one of the obstacles to
>learning and adopting TeX in one's workflow is the refusal of
>co-authors and editors to accept manuscript submissions
>typeset in (La)TeX. Heck, I even know of some journals (that
>publish material containing a fair amount of equations and
>statistical results, so there is definitely a place for TeX)
>with an editorial policy of not accepting *PDF* versions of
>manuscripts for review, even if the PDF has been distilled
>from a Word .doc file!
>
>This kind of policy is unacceptable as far as I am concerned,
>but I doubt there will be a change in editorial policy in the
>foreseeable future. If other members of the TeX community are
>interested in exploring means to address this problem, I'd be
>more than happy to join in.
>=============
>Tze KWANG Teo
>Dept of Political Science
>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>http://www.tzekwangteo.org/


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