X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["726" "Fri" "31" "October" "1997" "14:09:02" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "18" "Re: journal macros (not front matter)" "^Date:" nil nil "10" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22590; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:54:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.B1835C8F@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:54:11 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 226643 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:53:48 +0100 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29605 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:53:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA10613 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 14:52:24 GMT Received: from SRAHTZ (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 31 Oct 1997 14:52:05 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <97103113443170@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.6 Message-ID: <8674-Fri31Oct1997140902+0000-s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <97103113443170@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 14:09:02 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: journal macros (not front matter) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2519 > > Depends on how strictly such things as `please use British spelling' are > interpreted. > have you ever had a paper rejected on the grounds that you have said `colour' instead of `color' or vice-versa? who ever checks it? i see a lot of scientific papers here; the *spelling* is the very least of their problems - many authors need a course in basic literacy before getting round to spelling....... if this is 2 years work on a fundamental paper, or a text book, then maybe authors might get around to minutiae like color vs colour. i suggest that the rest of time you should just write in your own dialect, be consistent, and take the journal to court if they reject your apper on those grounds only.... Sebastian