On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:53:10AM +1200, Stefano Franchi wrote: > Yes. In my field---Humanities---this is the almost universal rule. The > "academically serious publishers" (i.e. those you need to publish with > to get tenure ;-) ) want complete control and use MS Word as an editing > format which they will input, typically, into InDesign (used to be > Quark Xpress, but we know the story). Some of the most established > publishers will even take this approach a step further and actually > retype the whole book from the typescript, as it was done decades ago. > They claim it is actually cheaper to use someone in India to retype it > than to pay someone in the US to spot hidden problems in the word > processing file. (I had personal experience with this approach, I am > not kidding).
I had a similar experience with Elsevier. Although they accepted LaTeX input (using their own .sty) and the final result pretty much looked liked LaTeX as well it was obviously retyped. A table was completely messed up and there were spelling errors that weren't in my submission (although a few other I made were corrected). Andre'
