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In <199811101724.RAA16684@nag.co.uk> David Carlisle <davidc@NAG.CO.UK> writes:
>Then this will be a lot of work (thanks for volunteering!) but it will
>only help the user who is trying to submit his article if you also
>pursuade the publisher to accept such documents. For example last I
>heard <well known publisher who shall remain nameless> were still
>recommending their authors use latex 2.09, so getting (some) publishers
>to move may take as much effort as producing the list in the first place.

If you mean the one that is in a beautiful town in Germany with some ruins
of a castle, they now have a quite interesting set of document classes and
are recommending _them_. But you can always ask the author of the
successor of the cm-fonts -- he designed them... :-)))

Best regards
        Martin

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