{"id":420,"date":"2015-11-13T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:20:11","slug":"typesetting-by-premium-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/2015\/11\/13\/typesetting-by-premium-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Typesetting by &#8220;Premium Publishers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would think that Elsevier makes so much money from selling reference works like the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2006, print: 3949\u20ac, 9000 pages) that they could pay a typesetter. No! What they did is obvious when you look at the formatting of the figures and formulae. They just did a screenshot (of a manuscript perfectly typeset in LaTeX).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-11-13-um-10.45.57.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-11-13-um-10.45.57-300x225.png\" alt=\"Bildschirmfoto 2015-11-13 um 10.45.57\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-11-13-um-10.45.57-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bildschirmfoto-2015-11-13-um-10.45.57.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see the derivation in (13) has a little vertical line at the right edge. An artefact due to inserting screenshots. So the claim that publishers like Elsevier do high quality typesetting for us is a myth going back to the good old times. It is not reality.<\/p>\n<p>And the fact that the little line is still there somehow is evidence that the inhouse proofreading did not work either.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/B0080448542020289\">the paper<\/a>, just in case you want to check. It is $30 for 12 pages = $2,50 per page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would think that Elsevier makes so much money from selling reference works like the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2006, print: 3949\u20ac, 9000 pages) that they could pay a typesetter. No! What they did is obvious when you look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/2015\/11\/13\/typesetting-by-premium-publishers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frank-m-richter.de\/freescienceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}