At this point I've decided refuse to deal with publishers/journals/etc. who don't accept .tex. (Unless it's at the explicit request of a close colleague.) .doc(

At this point I've decided refuse to deal with publishers/journals/etc. who don't accept .tex. (Unless it's at the explicit request of a close colleague.) .doc(x) is not a professional file format. (Nor is .odt for that matter.)