The Mathematics of Poker

[thylacine]

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Question to Authors

Why not typeset mathematics using LaTeX? It's use is virtually universal in mathematics.

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I was wondering that too. Chen has a math Ph.D., so he has to be pretty familiar with TeX. My guess is that non-math/physics publishers just don't do TeX (I certainly can't convince biophysics journals to accept things in TeX, for instance).

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Really? Wow! What do they accept? What do they insist on?

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Take your worst guess.

Microsoft Word or PDF is the standard at most places, but some other formats are supported. I just checked the Journal of Computational Chemistry .. they want you to submit Word files, RTF files or straight postscript. Their suggestion for LaTex is that you convert it to .ps or .pdf before submitting it. Other places are a little more strict. Biophysical Journal requires things to be in PDF (no other options).

Someday, the rest of the publishing world will see the light, but my guess is still that their publisher didn't want to deal with TeX.

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Well it's no big deal to convert it to .ps or .pdf

The BIG problem then is when they want to do hands-on editting with these files.