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Date: | Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:13:49 +0100 |
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> If the history of a scientific article would be done from conception
> to publishing, I would say it starts as a pure Plain TeX document, as
> there are mostly mathematical formulas plus some unstructured
> comments explaining what the formulas are about, separated by
you seem have a very blinkered view of what a `scientific article' is!
i have written many articles as an archaeologist and computer
scientist (mosty of them very bad), and I have (I think) never used a
mathematical formula.
> else you like (PostScript or PDF?). But trying to write a scientific
> article from the scratch directly into SGML would be absurd, in my
i compose in LaTeX. i have also composed in XML. really, very little
difference, just a matter of < instead of \. Indeed, Phil Taylor has
promoted a style of TeX coding which is <..> anyway. when i asked him
the other week, he agreed it was _nearly_ parseable against a DTD.
sebastian
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