On Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:37:47 GMT Phillip Helbig said: >One leading scientific journal is exemplary in REQUIRING 2e instead of >2.09 but prohibits the use of private macros (even if defined in the >preamble with no name clashes, redefinitions etc of standard commands or >ones from the special journal .cls), [] >Is this something one must be prepared to accept in the long run? > Considering the excessively high prices (most) professional journals charge (even if they also demand page fees) -- though paying no royalties but demanding full copyrights -- while the author usually provides an almost completely typeset manuscript, publishers should _gladly_ accept anything the author is prepared to deliver instead of imposing specific requirements. Peter