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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  TeX Printer
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Date: 3 Feb 91 12:17:42 GMT
References: <11641@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Feb2.151519.28432@utstat.uucp> <1991Feb2.234136.23733@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991Feb2.234136.23733@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>   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.

Actually, several journals have accepted troff input, and I assume they
still do so.  troff and TeX have similar characteristics and stand
as a class opposed to WYSIWYG systems.