Re: ACM Ada Letters

From: Pat Rogers (progers_at_classwide.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 19:14:26 GMT

> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>> Marin David Condic wrote:
>>
>>> The paper copy? The on-line copy looks fine. In self-defense, the
>>> articles are not formatted by the submitters - you hand it over in
>>> .DOC format and the editors tinker with it from there. They may
have
>>> had some problem between that and getting it to the printer. Look
at
>>> the stuff at the SIGAda web site and see if thats any better.
>>
>> Yeah, it's the paper copy that's bad. It's fine on the SIGAda site.
>> But the paper copy is the one I read, and it's really annoying to
>> have it malformed. Someone's got to get on the ball. After all, I'm
>> paying for it!

It is indeed very strange.

By the way, Word is only preferred in the sense that I cannot handle
LaTex or FrameMaker or something like that. People typically want to
send their submissions in the format of the tool that produced the
document itself. Also, I can make trivial changes for people if they
send their submissions in Word. As it mentions in the Guidelines for
Authors, PDF is perfectly acceptable, as is Postscript. 

--
Pat Rogers
Technical Editor, Ada Letters
progers@classwide.com