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From: patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood)
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Subject: Re: Need help with weirdo format fo
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 23:19:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 23:19:16 1987
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Not all author-supplied camera-ready artwork is done poorly.  We've been
doing it for almost four years now (before "desktop publishing" was in
vogue) and have been paid fairly well for it.  We've been told by people
at the publisher that we do better work than they can do in-house.  The
majority of work done by the author does leave much to be desired, either
because the typesetting program used stinks, the author doesn't have a
fine eye for layout or detail, the author gets carried away with fonts and
point sizes, or simply due to lack of attention.  We shouldn't generalize,
just because a lot (or even the majority) of author-typeset books aren't
very good.  Just looking at Knuth's TeX and METAFONT books gives me hope
that all is not lost.

Pat Wood