From: "Sales Hype" Subject: Re: Math, LaTeX and Browser Plugins Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 03:44:02 -0000 Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.text.tex,sci.physics,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.xml Bret Kreh wrote in message <369FA5C3.8D62F675@lanl.gov>... >I'm suprised I have seen Scientific Word mentioned only once in this thread (at >least as far back as I have gone). Some of the people I used to work with were >die-hard TeXies, but have fallen in love with this program. I haven't tried it >myself, but I haven't been publishing much with equations in it since my thesis, >where I struggled slightly with MSWord's equation editor. It was still faster >than learning TeX to write my thesis. Anyway, Scientific Word has both WYSIWYG >_and_ TeX inputs, and outputs to LaTeX format as well. Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink... In addition to being a WYSIWYG-type interface for writing LaTeX, Scientific Word allows you to read *.tex files directly over the Web by clicking on them from a *regular* Web browser - which is what this thread was originally about. When you do, the *.tex file is downloaded and SW fires up automatically to display it. Of course, you can then save it locally and edit it. Scientific Word's big brother Scientific WorkPlace also includes WYSIWYG-type Maple; the baby brother Scientific Notebook even has a *free* viewer version - available for download by visiting our Web site (address below) and selecting MoreOptions-ScientificNotebookViewer. There are some sample *.tex files to test it on. Thanks for the mention! If anyone would like our free information pack (includes 30-day demo CDs of SW/P and SNB), just Email us your postal address. Cheers, Christopher -- Sales Hype, Scientific Word Ltd., UK Tel: (0845) 766 0340; Intl: +44 (1779) 490500; Fax: (01779) 490600 Email: info@sciword.demon.co.uk Web: http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk ============================================================================== From: John Starrett Subject: Re: Math, LaTeX and Browser Plugins Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 22:10:15 -0700 Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.text.tex,sci.physics,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.xml Bret Kreh wrote: > I'm suprised I have seen Scientific Word mentioned only once in this thread (at > least as far back as I have gone). Some of the people I used to work with were > die-hard TeXies, but have fallen in love with this program. I haven't tried it > myself, but I haven't been publishing much with equations in it since my thesis, > where I struggled slightly with MSWord's equation editor. It was still faster > than learning TeX to write my thesis. Anyway, Scientific Word has both WYSIWYG > _and_ TeX inputs, and outputs to LaTeX format as well. > I used Scientific Word for my thesis, and although I loved it at first, I ended up abandoning it for large documents, because it would from time to time refuse to compile a DVI file, making all your work for nothing. I had to go through all kinds of gyrations to get my document back. This happened several times. Furthermore, Scientific Workplace uses nonstandard style files, and it is a lot of work to get documents to compile under other LaTex compilers. I still use it for small documents, but I don't trust it.