Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!gmdzi!thomas
From: thomas@gmdzi.UUCP (Thomas Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V88 #87
Message-ID: <843@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 08:09:21 GMT
References: <23523@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany
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From article <23523@labrea.Stanford.EDU>, by TeXhax@Score.Stanford.EDU (TeXhax Digest):
> 
> Let's try to play the devil's advocate............
> 
> Some scientific journals allow authors to submit articles
> in the form of TeX code. I have two reasons not to be
> overly enthousiastic about this. ...
> 
> I don't want to see a layman's layout anymore than I want to
> study a layman's articles.
> 

Perhaps such concerns make it clear why the Association of American 
Publishers, AAP, is pushing SGML, Standard Generalized Markup Language,
an ISO standard for marking the logical components of manuscripts
(footnotes, references, titles, author ...) rather than the visual
layout.   Authors are responsible for the content and structure 
of their manuscripts, but publishers remains responsible for
typesetting.  The AAP has published a set of "document types" for
describing scientific manuscripts, including mathematical formulas.



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