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On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 11:47:09PM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> John Palmer (johnp@bcs.org.uk) writes:
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>  > [1] in the short and medium term it is easier to get authors to write
>  > LaTeX than to write SGML;
>
> and about a million times easier again to get them to write in Word,
> as 99% of them probably do :-}

I assumed that these "standard journal macros" were aimed mainly
at mathematical (or at least scientific) journals?

I have never seen a research article in mathematics written in Word.

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