On 12 Dec, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Martin Vermeer wrote:
Yes, I know. And that means they can accept a PDF produced by LaTeX.
The
typesetter of a journal I am the E-i-C of does precisely this, and he
is
happy that it saves him a lot of work compared to the manuscripts --
the great majority -- that he receives in Word format. And with a
better
looking result.
Stefano, insisting on a Word document is mostly laziness in this case.
Martin,
I see---you were not missing the point at all. It seems to me, though,
that there is a fundamental divergence of views on the workflow model.
Or perhaps there isn't. I think you'd agree with me that professional
quality books and journals are normally produced by professional
typesetters. (Or by obsessively perfectionist professionally-minded
amateur typesetters---Knuth being the case in point). I don't know if
you're in the last category---I certainly am not. For those like
me---and I surmise that in phil and Soc sci we are the overwhelming
majority---the main issue is how to communicate with the
publisher---not how to produce beautiful manuscripts.
You may be right that pdf + inDesign may do everything publishers now
do with word, although I am not sure how InDesign deals with imported
footnotes, endnotes, etc. (aka as the philosopher's lifeline...). But
if it does, then it would be the perfect lingua franca and I stand
gratefully corrected. Even though I am still skeptic about the time it
would take publishers to be convinced of that fact...
Cheers,
S.
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