Session 1 -- Review, and new features in Version 4.0

Review of Basic Course

• Basic Challenge document at http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk/bas_chal.pdf

• Subequations

  alignment

  numbering

• Master/Subdocuments

• Hyperlinks in Scientific Word/WorkPlace documents to local files/web sites - sample at http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk/test.tex (if necessary, have SW/P running first)

Porting references from Econlit through Bibliographix into Scientific Word

Some Version 4.0 new features

• Output HTML documents, with maths as MathML or graphics - see the web page http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk/checkout.htm created from the Scientific Word/WorkPlace 'checkout' document http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk/checkout.gif

• Select typesetting appearance from the "Gallery of Document Shells"

• New "Typesetting Documents" printed manual

• Configure the Symbol Cache and the expanded Symbol Panels (including euro symbol)

• New Editing Toolbar

• Enhanced keyboard shortcuts

• Choice of computation engine

• Disable TeX filenames warning

• Create unnumbered Sections

• Set defaults for material exported as graphics

• Automatic substitution of new math names

Session 2 -- The Top 10 Technical Support Issues

1. Changing to landscape to print large tables

2. Bold italics

3. Equation numbering in Appendices (also numbering Remarks with Section number)

4. Imported graphics treated as Tables

5. Printing "Draft Only - do not Circulate" on Title Page

6. Appending computer data to a document

7. Error message: Too many unprocessed floats

8. Fixed width tables with elements centred

9. Getting multiple authors' names in a citation

10. Numbering

    1. How to have Theorems, Corollaries etc. unnumbered

    2. Tables 'numbered' using letters: "Table A" etc.

    3. Equations numbered in boldface

    4. Footnote numbers with brackets

Session 3 -- Using the Maple/MuPAD in Scientific WorkPlace

• Menu functions

• Making definitions

• User-defined Maple .m files

• Getting familiar with computation

• Problem solving with Scientific WorkPlace

Session 4 -- Classy Typesetting Packages & More...

Classy typesetting packages for special features

1. Drop capitals - see http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk/brer.pdf

2. Wrapping text around graphics - see http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk/brer.pdf

3. Typesetting in colour

4. Putting text inside boxes

5. Placing several graphics side by side, with captions

6. Printing footnotes as endnotes

7. Scaling your fonts

8. Single, double and wavy underlining; strike-out and slashed-out text

9. Understanding the layout of the page

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Session 5 -- Additional Utilities

• The Style Editor: creating your typesetting specifications the easy way

• Generating Indexes

• Packages to keep track of markers, cross-references, labels, bibliography items and citations during draft mode.

• On-line tests using the Exam Builder: click here for exambuilder.tex and Open this file from its current location (requires Scientific WorkPlace to be on your computer). Sign in as 'Beta', with password 'Tester', select a test and click to load the assignment.

Question and Answer session

Session 6 -- The Ultimate Challenge

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Last Updated: 24th. November 2004