> 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), presumably because this is a > hindrance in conversion to HTML (which has the advantage of being > searchable) which they use as one of their online formats. > > Is this something one must be prepared to accept in the long run? It no. it just means they don't use a very sophisticated converter. i have mildly strong views on this, since my job at present is further development of Elsevier's latex 2 sgml. If we go to the trouble of dealing with arbitrary macros, so can everyone else.... Sebastian [if you have not heard of it before, our converter works by running LaTeX with a highly-specialized LaTeX class, and extracting tagged text from the dvi file. Eitan Gurari's tex4ht uses a similar process.]