X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["2016" "Tue" "31" "August" "1999" "10:19:50" "+0100" "John Palmer (johnp@bcs.org.uk)" "ku15@BCS.ORG.UK" nil "53" "Standard journal macros" "^Date:" nil nil "8" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25976; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:15:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.8B82EA36@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:15:07 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 443703 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:14:45 +0200 Received: from ns.cityscape.co.uk (ns.cityscape.co.uk [194.159.0.5]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05261 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:14:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from angel2.cityscape.co.uk ([194.159.0.17]) by ns.cityscape.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Lk2H-0007Uo-00 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:17:01 +0100 Received: from ku15 (helo=localhost) by angel2.cityscape.co.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Lk51-00045i-00 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:19:51 +0100 X-Sender: ku15@angel2.cityscape.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <99083108153186@man.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:19:50 +0100 From: "John Palmer (johnp@bcs.org.uk)" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Standard journal macros Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3287 This is a very important and good idea. Could you please amplify your idea a little? Several publishers already issue article-classes for specific journals---or for all the journals they publish; as I currently work for one of these publishers (Wiley), I'd be interested to know more about the ways in which this sort of service could be improved. (This is me speaking, not on behalf of Wiley, of course). I've hoped for a long time that all publishers would accept LaTeX-coded articles for any journal, to a common classfile so that authors don't have to change their practices for different journals or publishers. Is that your general aim? Regards John Palmer 69 St Cross Road, Winchester SO23 9RE, England +44 1962 865261 johnp@bcs.org.uk On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Phillip Helbig wrote: > > is this list alive? > > Yes. Not much traffic lately. > > What are the prospects for coming up with some standard journal macros, > including a BibTeX-style front matter handler, embracing the physical > and social sciences and also getting all publishers and editors to > encourage their use as well as distribute proper BibTeX files. > > :) > > Is there hope for the world? > > > -- > Phillip Helbig Email ......... p.helbig@jb.man.ac.uk > Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories Tel. ... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 2635) > Jodrell Bank Fax ................ +44 1477 571 618 > Macclesfield Telex ................ 36149 JODREL G > UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web ... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/ > > ************************ currently working at ******************************* > > Kapteyn Instituut Email (above preferred) helbig@astro.rug.nl > Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Tel. ...................... +31 50 363 4067 > Postbus 800 Fax ....................... +31 50 363 6100 > NL-9700 AV Groningen > The Netherlands Web ... http://gladia.astro.rug.nl/~helbig/ >