On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: >> >> >>> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the >>> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. >> >> >> I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the >> humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They sometimes >> even require MS Word format but transform the word file to TeX to be able to >> layout the text properly. So just ask you publisher. > > Sorry Uwe, but this is not true---at least not in the US. Most > publishers in my field (Humanities) do not use latex at all. When > they ask for Word is because they use inDesign or Quark Xpress (this > one less and less true). And smaller presses--or not so small > presses, like Rodopi---just go for PDF+print-on demand. I hear from > colleagues that the social sciences are the same. Latex dominates in > CS and Math only. Even some (and, I hear, more and more) hard > scientists (i.e. physicists) now use word. > Sorry, Stefano - but LaTeX is undoubtedly the main physics publication vehicle.
And LyX has gotten orders of magnitude better at decoupling the user experience from the LaTeX source in the past decade, so I would agree that you no longer need to know LaTeX to use it in a standard way. There are still the occasional LaTeX errors, but I can't recall any specific recent example, and that just proves that things have improved a lot… Jens
