On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-04-02, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Let me add this: The editors don't expect the author of a Word
submission to conduct the revision process in an unfamiliar file
format. I'm sure they go back and forth with Word files. But they are
trying to force me to conduct the editing process in an unfamiliar
file format, namely tex.
However, I suppose they clearly stated that they accept either LaTeX
or Word *before* you submitted your manuscript.
In both cases, the submission-format is used for the revision process.
I don't think it is fair to expect the editors to be familiar with
any of
the many possible formats of some pre-processing state to generate
either
of these (OpenOffice, LyX, some HTML2latex or HTML2Word converter,
Abiword, Docutils, ...). (Working with OpenOffice while the other side
uses Word can be a nightmare too.)
Günter
Very true, but shouldn't they be willing in this special case -- an
author who submits a tex file, but who is not conversant with tex --
to go "old school"?: they mark up the pdf, mail a photocopy or email a
scanned copy to me, I make the revisions in LyX, then export tex and
pdf files and send them back. Doesn't seem like too big a deal, and
the result would be a more error-free article.
Bruce
