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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Need help with weirdo format for bib
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 16:32:03 EDT
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> ... So why do the copy
> editors waste their time adding printers marks to my manuscripts which
> are already correctly formatted with respect to boldface and italics?

Probably because their typesetting people are *not* used to working from
multi-font documents, and the copy editors are (justifiably) worried that
this will introduce errors.  This is a real and legitimate concern.
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