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From: zqli@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Zhenqin Li)
Newsgroups: comp.text,sci.physics,sci.chem,sci.math
Subject: TeX/LaTeX in scientific publications
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Date: 18 Aug 89 17:16:37 GMT
Reply-To: zqli@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Zhenqin Li)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: why is LaTeX ignored by APS and ACS?

I spent some time in learning LaTeX and typing my thesis.
But to my dismay, I found that most journals of the American
Physical Society (APS) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) do not
accept manuscripts in LaTeX, but accept TeX. Only Stephen Wolfram's
"Complex Systems" uses LaTeX, to my knowledge. 
 
I wonder why TeX is prefered over LaTeX? If most scientific
institutions do not endorse LaTeX, is LaTeX going to meet
the fate of Esperanto? Or is LaTeX going to be adopted by
APS and ACS as well, as more people become familiar with it?