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Scientific Word Version 5.5
makes creating professional documents easy. With
Scientific Word, you compose mathematical, scientific, and technical
documents at the keyboard using natural mathematical notation. You can
choose whether to publish your document on the Web using HTML or PDF or
print it with or without LaTeX typesetting.
Typesetting Made Easy
In Scientific Word, you can
choose to typeset complex technical documents with LaTeX, the industry
standard for mathematics typesetting. Because of its superior precision and
quality, publishers and writers of scientific material use LaTeX
extensively. When you typeset, LaTeX automatically generates footnotes,
indexes, bibliographies, tables of contents, and cross-references.
This typesetting power comes without your having to learn
LaTeX. Many of the more than 150 document shells have been designed to meet
the typesetting requirements of specific professional journals and
institutions. Scientific Word automatically
saves your documents as LaTeX files. You can concentrate on writing a
correct paper; Scientific Word makes it a
beautiful one.
Sharing Your Work Is Easy
Scientific Word simplifies
working with colleagues in other locations. Version 5.5 includes a new input
filter for importing files created in native LaTeX. The filter can read many
macro definitions not created in Scientific Word.
The program also includes support for pdfTeX. Before
passing your file to the pdfTeX processor, Scientific
Word converts all the graphics in your file to a form that can be
processed by pdfLaTeX. Also, documents that use the Hyperref package produce
PDF documents that are fully hyperlinked, with
links in the table of contents and with hierarchical bookmarks corresponding
to the structure of your document. This combination of support for embedded
graphics with a large variety of formats and full hyperlinking makes the PDF
documents produced by Scientific Word superior
both to the results of pdfLaTeX alone and to the results of Acrobat. When
you use pdfTeX to print your document, you can use PostScript-related
packages such as Rotating or the PSNFSS font packages that were previously
unsupported in the program.
Support for creating PDF files now combines with Beta
support for Beamer so that you can create typeset PDF presentations from
your Scientific Word documents. Beamer support
provides dynamic transitions and many predefined slide styles to help you
create professional-looking presentations, handouts, and transparencies that
contain text, mathematics, graphics, and even animations.
Scientific Word imports
text (.txt) and Rich Text Format (.rtf) files, and exports documents to RTF
format for importing into Microsoft Word. The mathematics in your document
are converted to Microsoft Equation Editor or MathType 5 format.
You can create .dvi, .htm, .pdf, or .rtf files from your
documents, or generate portable LaTeX output for seamless transfer to
different LaTeX installations. Also, you can copy content to the clipboard
for export as text or graphics to other applications. The Document Manager
simplifies file transfer by email or on diskette.
Increased Productivity
This software thinks like you do. Whether you prefer to
use the mouse or the keyboard, entering mathematics is so straightforward
there is practically no learning curve. Formatting is fast, simple, and
consistent. In Scientific Word, you use tags
to define the document structure and format it consistently.
Users have reported significant productivity increases
when support staff use Scientific Word instead
of raw LaTeX to typeset documents. Both technical and non-technical users
can quickly learn to enter and number equations, create tables and matrices,
and import graphics, all with pleasing on-screen mathematics and italics
created with TrueType outline fonts.
Scientific Word has the
tools that simplify writing and editing books and other large documents. It
is perfect for writers in academic, industrial, and government institutions
and in all scientific and technical fields: mathematics, physics,
engineering, economics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, medical
research, and logic. With the external lookup feature, you can access or run
external programs, such as a search engine or other application, directly
from your Scientific Word document.
The software comes with an extensive online help system
and a series of reference manuals. If you need additional help, we provide
reliable, prompt, free technical support.
International, Interoperable, Indispensable
Spelling, font, and hyphenation support for languages
other than English is available. You can switch languages in the same
document using Babel, the multilingual LaTeX system. The software supports
input using any left-to-right language supported by a version of Windows,
including Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It uses the in-place IME (Input
Method Editor) for these languages. (The ability to typeset a language may
depend on the availability of TeX for that language. Non-Latin character
sets are typeset with Lambda, which is included.)
Scientific Word has a
built-in link to the World Wide Web. If you have Internet access, you can
open the file at any URL address from inside the program. Also, you can
deliver content via the Web. The software supports hypertext links, so you
can facilitate navigation for your readers through a series of related
documents. Readers can view and print documents using
Scientific Viewer.
System requirements
- Microsoft Windows® 98, Me, 2000, XP, and up, or NT 4.0
or
Apple Macintosh® running an emulator program such as Virtual PC™
- 64 MB of RAM
- 85 to 250 MB hard disk space, depending on the type of hard drive and
the installation options selected
- CD-ROM drive
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Typesetting Features
In Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word, you
can typeset your documents using LaTeX, the undisputed industry standard for
typesetting mathematical text. LaTeX provides automatic document formatting,
including margins, hyphenation, kerning, ligatures, and many other elements
of fine typesetting. LaTeX also automatically generates document elements
including the title pages, table of contents, footnotes, margin notes,
headers, footers, indexes, and bibliographies.
Because Scientific WorkPlace
and Scientific Word communicate with LaTeX for
you, you can concentrate on what you do best—creating the content of your
document—without worrying about LaTeX syntax. You don't need to understand
LaTeX to produce beautifully typeset material, but if you do know TeX or
LaTeX commands, you can use them in your Scientific
WorkPlace or Scientific Word documents
to make the typesetting even more precise.
Take advantage of these typesetting features of
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word:
Formatting variety with predefined document shells.
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word come with over 150 predefined
document shells, each with a different typeset appearance and many designed
to meet the formatting requirements of specific journals and academic
institutions. You can choose the shell that's most appropriate for your
journal or publisher. If you don't know yet where your work will be
published, we recommend that you start with one of the standard LaTeX
shells, which can be easily adapted after your paper has been written.
Typesetting control. Each document shell has a
LaTeX document class and may also have LaTeX packages. Both the class and
the packages have options and settings that create a more finely typeset
appearance for your document. The available options and packages depend on
the shell, but typically govern the ability to modify the formatting for
typesetting details such as different paper sizes, portrait or landscape
orientation, double-sided printing, double-column output, different font
sizes, and draft or final output. You can change the options and packages
with the Options and Packages item on the Typeset menu.
Additional LaTeX packages. The supplied LaTeX
packages provide even more control. By adding packages to your document, you
can achieve a variety of typesetting effects. For example, you can add
packages that switch between single and multiple columns of text on a single
page; create endnotes from footnotes; or govern the appearance of footnotes,
including their numbering or symbol scheme.
Easy generation of front and back matter. You can
create a table of contents easily by inserting a command into the Front
Matter section of your document. When you typeset your document, LaTeX
automatically generates the table of contents from the section headings you
have created. Similarly, you can create an index by inserting index entries
throughout your document, and letting LaTeX generate the index pages. An
index can have primary, secondary, and tertiary references, and can also
point the reader to other entries in the index.
Automatic numbering of theorems, lemmas, and other
theorem environments. You can number theorems, lemmas, propositions, and
conjectures in a variety of styles. You control whether they are each
numbered in the same or separate sequences, so that your theorem
environments might be numbered as Theorem 1, Lemma 2, Theorem 3, Conjecture
4, Lemma 5..., or as Theorem 1, Lemma1, Theorem 2, Conjecture 1, Lemma 2....
As an option, you can reset the numbering at the beginning of each chapter
or section, and you can include the chapter and section numbers in the
number.
Automatic cross-referencing. You can create
automatically generated cross-references to equations, tables, figures,
pages, and other numbered objects elsewhere in your document. You don't have
to know the object or page number in advance. When you typeset, LaTeX
inserts the number of the referenced object in the text.
Automatic bibliography generation.
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word include BibTeX for automatic
bibliographies. You select references from a BibTeX database of references,
and BibTeX formats them according to the bibliography style you select.
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word also include tools for the
maintenance of the BibTeX database. LaTeX packages such as EndNotes can save
references in BibTeX format.
Preparing PDF files with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word
The PDF format is a good format for presenting
mathematical and technical content on the Internet because the Adobe Acrobat
Viewer is nearly universally available, and the format allows software to
include in the PDF document all the fonts that are necessary to render
mathematics well. Further, the format supports hyperlinking and bookmarks.
Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word support pdfTeX
In Version 5.x of
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word you can typeset your file with
pdfLaTeX to produce a PDF file. You can still typeset with LaTeX to produce
a DVI file. The Typeset menu has three additional items: Preview
PDF, Print PDF, and Compile PDF.
When you use pdfLaTeX, you can also use several LaTeX
packages that previously have not been supported by
Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word
because they require PostScript printers. These packages, including
rotating and the PSNFSS font packages, can be used when you compile with
pdfTeX. When the hyperref package is included in your document, the
PDF file produced is fully hyperlinked with links in the table of contents
and with hierarchical bookmarks that reflect the structure of your LaTeX
document.
One problem with pdfLaTeX has been that it allows only a
very few graphics file formats, so to get the benefits of producing a PDF
file, you had to forego using most graphics file formats.
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word solve this problem by
converting all the graphics embedded in your document to PDF format before
calling pdfLaTeX.
In the past it was possible to produce PDF files from
Scientific WorkPlace and
Scientific Word by printing the DVI file using
the Acrobat Distiller print driver. This method, however, does not preserve
the hyperlinks in your LaTeX document. This is still the only method of
producing PDF files with
Scientific Notebook.
Product box contents
- 1 CD
- 1 copy of Getting Started with Scientific
WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook (104 pages)
- 1 copy of Creating Documents with Scientific
WorkPlace and Scientific Word (448 pages)
- 1 copy of Typesetting Documents in Scientific
WorkPlace and Scientific Word (248 pages)
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