Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 16:36 schrieb Ronald Florence: > I've noted in the past that LyX is a frustration in dealing with trade > publishers (like Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster) for > books intended for the general public. Unlike some scientific > publishers, trade publishers do not accept manuscripts in LaTeX, LyX or > any format but ms-word or perhaps WordPerfect.
Dear Ronald, I think that publishers want to format their publications themselves, the author has only to concentrate on the content and deliver a manuscript suitable for say TeX and its children or Framemaker or something else. In my experience publishers are happy with plain text files to feed their formatting-engines. Some jounals accept TeX-source-files, but this is a rare exemption when the formatting of contents is very standardized. The distinction between author and typesetter/printer has worked quite well so far, in general, I believe. So I am happy to hear that your publisher accepted your formatted proofs, but I would not be disappointed if the publisher did not accept the authors layout-ideas and want to typeset it himself. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht
