> > b) please lets have portable programs written in the genuinely > > popular langauges, viz TeX or C++ > > Ha ha, I think Sebastian omitted a couple of smilies. no, i was serious for once. TeX is ok, in this context, but once we go outside that, its C++ or Java, please. If Phil Taylor is listening and says `WEB!' I shall scream (silently) > Specials aside, dviconcat works well at the level of combining dvi unfortunately, dviconcat is widely unavailable. its a pig to compile even under Unix, and I have never seen it elsewhere > files. But combining TeX or LaTeX source files is still not so easy. > Publishers will come up with their own solutions. (Perhaps Sebastian > can inform us about Elsevier practice.) Let's work towards some what do you have in mind? N articles being combined into one journal issue? Robin Fairbairns was working on that for TUGboat, and Matt (where is he now?) Swift discussed in some detail a few years ago. Elsevier, for what its worth, combines articles at the printing level:-} sebastian