Re: ACM Ada Letters

From: Marin David Condic (nobody_at_noplace.com)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:53:21 GMT

I don't think it would be at all unreasonable for a journal to ask
authors to use some specific, common fonts. What's wrong with limiting
things to Times New Roman and Arial? Just about everyone can handle that
and it would get the job done. Also, it makes for a more consistent
looking journal.

Its also not unreasonable to restrict submissions to some small set of
document formats. After all, while we all have our favorites, you can't
expect an editor to have every possible file format supported for *your*
convenience. Even non-Word processors can usually make a .DOC and .PDF
is pretty common too. That seems like a reasonable restriction.

MDC

Wes Groleau wrote:
>
>
> Ah, but Word automatically substitutes another font,
> and Pat can easily change it if it selects an ugly one.
> 

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