Re: [tlug] Poll: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 05/23/2014 10:32 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Microsoft Word.  What else would they use?  This is the main reason
> for specifying a submission format.  Some may print out and use red
> ink, of course.

Not red.  Prussian blue.  Pencil, not ink.

> I don't understand what you're suggesting here.  The high-quality
> typesetting systems accept Word documents and the like directly,
> AFAIK.  This may require some kind of custom translation software, but
> that's cheap compared to the cost of human reviewers, editors, and
> copy-editors.

The front end on most publishing systems is based upon ... ummmm ... 
that one that Xerox did back in the 1980s and whose name doesn't pop 
up.  Maybe if I stand on my head and then sit up quickly it will float 
up in front of my eyes like a Magic Eight Ball answer.

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CL