LaTex for publication
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg18637] LaTex for publication
- From: "William B. Marks" <bmarks at helix.nih.gov>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:01:46 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Thank each of you for helping me get started. I think Mathematica will eventually be a WYSIWYG generator for LaTex suitable for a journal. PJ Hinton wrote me: "We have designed a high degree of extensibility into the conversion rule definitions of TeXSave[], which makes it possible to create customized Mathematica style sheet notebooks that use cell styles based on the macros used by the publishing house. Then, when TeXSave[] does its work, the .tex file should be compatible with the publisher's requirements. Our publications department is working on these, and hopefully you'll see the fruition of their labors in the not-so-distant future." But for now we have the issue that even if we get LaTex from Mathematica the styles for the journal will not be utilized. To me this seems a small issue: why not omit the font specification when your send it to the journal. The lines may be the wrong length but so what? The important things, symbols, super-subscripts, and equation forms will have been specified. But since I'm just starting I will listen to your experience and write in Alpha and check using OzTex. Alpha, I assume, will accept my journal's style files. I will insert equations coded by Mathematica or Expressionist. If I have a problem with their fonts in the equations there may be work around. If not I will gradually learn to do the whole thing in Alpha . Bill Marks