> I don't see how that can work for AMS journals: For most of them > "current address" prints together with main address at the end of an > article; but a few of them have main address at top of page one with the > author name and current address as a footnote on page one. this does i agree sound a mess. do you introduce an extra optional argument, eg \address[a][beach hut]{real home} ? > How do you deal with name inversion (it doesn't appear that you require > name data to have the form "Last, First, Jr"?), or reducing first names > from full form to initials (the elsart examples suggest an expectation > that only the initials will ever be used, everywhere)? you are right, it isnt as good as i was claiming. we use, i am afraid, a \runauthor{} command to override the calculated running head if necessary > ---No \dedicatory element? (In some publications this might be printed > under the title, in others as a footnote.) we do have \dedicated internally, but it isnt advertised > ---No \email element? \translator? we do not support \translator in our DTD either. which suggests to me that it didnt emerge in our original document analysis. I agree, \email is another omission > ---I don't care for having \thanksref embedded in the author name, I'd > rather see different syntax. so would i > But the elsart markup for author names and addresses looks better than > current amsart. i would be very happy to argue within Elsevier to change or extend our markup to make it compatible with other people sebastian