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Making the Most of Publishing Software

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Terry J. Mahoney
Terry J. Mahoney*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. e-mail: tjm@ll.iac.es

Abstract

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Astronomers nowadays have a wealth of sophisticated publishing software at their fingertips, but are they achieving acceptable standards of presentation?

Type
Section 6: Some Practical Matters
Information
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special session: Astronomy for Developing Countries , 2001 , pp. 357 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2001

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