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Welcome! This is the web site of Scientific Word Ltd., set up in 1990 to distribute the TCI/MacKichan family of technical typesetting software and related products in the UK. We are now pleased to announce the release of version 5.5. There are three related Windows programs:

gives a WYSIWYG-type interface to LaTeX for professional-quality mathematical typesetting; it uses true mathematical notation, so you can compose and edit documents directly at the screen, without thinking in a programming language. Our original program: WYSIWYG LaTeX (typesetting).
incorporates Scientific Word, and adds the computing, simplifying and plotting capabilities of the included computer-algebra system MuPAD. Our flagship program: WYSIWYG LaTeX (typesetting) & MuPAD (computation).
gives the symbolic computation of Scientific WorkPlace with direct printing (no LaTeX typesetting). Our cut-down program: WYSIWYG MuPAD (computation) when professional output is not required.

All packages are priced with Educational discount for bona fide academic institutions; please see our Licence Calculator at www.sciword.demon.co.uk/pricing.htm .

For a free 30-day trial of Scientific Word, Scientific WorkPlace or Scientific Notebook, please click on Demodisks/Screenshot .

Fixed or Floating Licences

Fixed licence: A fixed licence is the right to use the program either:
  1. Installed on a single computer, which may be used by any number of people, one at a time; or
  2. Used by a single person, on several computers by that person. This allows the user of a fixed licence to use the program in their office, on their home computer, and even on a laptop computer.

A fixed licence is tied to a single computer, or a small number of computers used by a single person. It is not possible or consistent with the licencing agreement to use the same licence on other computers.

Floating licence: A floating licence is a network licence that can be used by anybody in the licencing organization, but by only one person at a time. For example, if an organization buys ten floating licences, anybody in the organization can use the program if they are on the network, but at most ten people can use it simultaneously. When the eleventh person attempts to run the program, s/he will be told that there are no licences available currently. Since a floating licence can be used by more people than a fixed licence, and since it is likely to be used more of the time, it is more expensive. Currently, all MacKichan Software, Inc. floating licences cost 1.6 times the price of the corresponding fixed licence.

You can buy a multi-user licence with any number of fixed and/or floating licences. If you discover that you need to purchase more licences, you can buy them and then update the licence file with a simple web transaction.

Student discount

A Student discount has been introduced in the UK, solely for those who are full-time, residential students. To qualify, students must submit copies of their student registration for the current year and produce a letter from their Head of Department, certifying their student status.
Student systems may also be bought by Universities, with the appropriate certification that the systems will only ever be used by students. You should specify whether the systems will continue to belong to the University (to be used by a different generation of students when the present ones leave), or whether the systems will become the property of the students (in which case we will require their names for our database).
Please note that systems bought under the Student discount scheme do not qualify for Technical Support.
 

This site, which has been accessed Counter times, is maintained by Dr Christopher Mabb of Scientific Word Ltd. If there is other information you hoped to find here, or you have any other suggestions for improvement, please them to me at christopher@sciword.demon.co.uk .

Last Updated: 13th. November 2007
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