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- From: tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro)
- Subject: Re: scientific word
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.152739.20042@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- References: <7751960@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:27:39 GMT
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- UCH018%DDOHRZ11.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Guenther Neue) writes:
- :
- : recently I found an advertisement for a program that is claimed to
- : combine latex with wysiwyg under Windows. Has anybody experience with
- : that program which is called "SCIENTIFIC word" ?
- :
-
- We have Scientific Word, that is, my advisor, who insists on having
- WYSIWYG and thinks TeX is "gross" has it. It was a compromise because
- his post-docs (myself and another person) are both TeXies and we wanted to
- be able to exchange manuscripts easily. Overall we've been very pleased
- with it. The manual is extremely well written, and the TeX files it
- generates (actually, they're LaTeX format) are completely portable (once
- you strip the $%&^%*%&* ^M's that DOS uses) so that he can work on a
- paper in WYSIWYG mode, give it to us on a DOS disc, and then (after
- stripping) we can make corrections and (after re-inserting the ^M's)
- give it back. Note that Scientific Word runs only on DOS machines
- (and adding and subtracting the ^M's to go to Unix is no big deal).
-
- Overall I'd give SW high marks, but (and there's a little irony here)
- if you want to do anything fairly non-standard you have to use it's
- facility to insert LaTeX command directly in the file (the irony being
- that because of SW my advisor, who was admantly opposed to TeX, has now
- learned a fair amount of it :-)
-
- I can provide name/address/phone # is anyone is interested.
-
- Hope this is Helpful -- tom
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