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_______________________________________________A representative of a publishing house just told me that "LaTeX isn't
commonly used in physics"
That's preposterous.
which surprised me a lot.
Me too.
I assume she meant this for all packages and varieties (e.g. REVTeX).
If you are using REVTeX you ipso facto using LaTeX.
REVTeX is just a macro package that runs under LaTeX.
http://publish.aps.org/revtex4/
the APS journals prefer LaTeX and have been accepting
LaTeX a lot longer than they've been accepting MSword
files.
I know of one major university where the very first
computer-typeset PhD thesis that was ever accepted
came from the physics department. (Guess how I know.)
I can't exactly prove it, but I imagine the density
of non-MS PCs is higher in the physics department
than anywhere else except maybe the computer-science
department.
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Something to keep in mind: Science majors go into
science. English majors go into publishing. As a
consequence, it is very common for a scientific
author to use wizard-friendly tools like LaTeX
while the publisher is more familiar with Muggle-
friendly tools like MSword.
If you're publishing a book it doesn't matter at
all, because the printing presses all accept PDF,
and the output of pdftex works just fine.
The only time it matters is if you're submitting
a chapter or section that will be part of a larger
work. Then the editor needs to be able to massage
whatever you submit.