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From: neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re:  TeX Printer(LONG)
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.234136.23733@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
References: <428@generic.UUCP> <1991Feb1.133159.86253@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <11641@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Feb2.151519.28432@utstat.uucp>
Date: 3 Feb 91 04:41:36 GMT

   [ Philip's salient comments deleted ]

   I'd just like to inject something into this discussion on the issue
of TeX vs. everything else.
   In the past year some physics journals, notably Phys.Rev., started
accepting journals through e-mail, instead of requiring a hardcopy
manuscript. As far as I know they accept only TeX format, with
PostScript for the diagrams and graphs, though that might have changed
since they began the policy. TeX is _the standard_ for technical
writing. What good is an IBM technical word processor if I can't kermit
the output files over to a Sun or Vax and work on it there? It's makes
the difference between doing stuff for yourself and the friends who
have the same program, and making a document which anybody can read.


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