New developments, such as TEX and LaTeX, are about to radically change the conventional ways of scientific publishing. Experiments with the acceptance of papers prepared with TEX or LaTeX are already going on [Daniel et al.1989].
The principle is simple and appealing. Authors prepare their papers with TEX or LaTeX, and send their manuscripts to the publishers on floppy disk or via electronic mail. A publisher runs TEX or LaTeX on the manuscript, and produces a (high quality) printable copy of the paper. The costly and time consuming steps of typesetting and proofreading would then be eliminated.
But before everything will run smoothly, some aspects of scientific publishing with TEX and LaTeX will have to be considered, and some problems need to be addressed.