X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1398" "Wed" "5" "November" "1997" "10:00:11" "+0000" "Robin Fairbairns" "Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK" nil "33" "Re: journal macros (not front matter)" "^Date:" nil nil "11" 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 OAA04711; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:45:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.ED62918D@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:16:52 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 229303 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 11:01:49 +0100 Received: from heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk (exim@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.32.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA04404 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 11:00:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from dorceus.cl.cam.ac.uk (cl.cam.ac.uk) [128.232.1.34] (rf) by heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.735 #2) id 0xT2Fw-0005Gv-00; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:00:12 +0000 Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Oct 1997 13:44:31 GMT." <97103113443170@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:00:11 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns 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: 2525 Philip Helbig quoting Hans Aberg: [proposed \colour command, I forget what for] > > Should the command not be named \color? I mean, who will remember how to > > spell it correctly otherwise. -- Just joking. :-) > > \color might already exist in one of the graphics packages?!?! \color is indeed used in color.sty, which seems to me a good reason *not* to use either American or British spelling. However, since I don't recall what the original command was for (and can't afford the time to look for it) I'm not able to suggest a reasonable alternative > > But I am not sure of the use of the command. Are there a lot of authors > > writing papers in several English dialects simultaneously? > > Well, my next paper I intend to submit to the Monthly Notices of the > Royal Astronomical Society, who in their style guide say `please use > British spelling'. However, MNRAS were still updating their 2.09 stuff in 1995, so one presumes they've little interest in all this new-fangled 2\varepsilon stuff. This is in fact a general problem: SPIE, I found last week, updated their 2.09 proceedings stuff in July (it turned out easier to hack their 2.09 package to a 2e class than to un-2e-ise the paper that had to be out <24 hours after I was called onto the job ;-). What publishers (apart from Springer NY ;-) can we expect to refuse to take part in this sort of exercise, I wonder? Robin