For journals in the fields that I’m familiar, what often ends up happening is the authors do all the typesetting perfectly with LaTeX. Then they submit a PDF, a

For journals in the fields that I’m familiar, what often ends up happening is the authors do all the typesetting perfectly with LaTeX. Then they submit a PDF, along with a Word file with all the text. Some contractor of the publisher does the typesetting all over again, using LaTeX!