Re: Which editor do you use for math articles
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- Subject: [mg95693] Re: [mg95350] Which editor do you use for math articles
- From: John_V <jvillar.john at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:50:19 -0500 (EST)
I have been using Adobe FrameMaker for this purpose for years. I thought it worth mentioning since no one else has yet done so. FrameMaker provides the conveniences of a word processor type environment (WYSIWYG, automatic numbering of references, cross referencing for figures, equation numbers, templates for multicolumn camera-ready papers and other report formats, etc.) that I find useful when writing a paper. It has its own equation editor, so I don't think you could cut and paste directly from Mathematica--though I don't know if that is possible with the alternatives either. I have not used TeX (or variants) since I wrote my thesis many years ago, so I can't compare this option to the more frequently mentioned TeX-related ones. I'd be interested in comments from anyone who is familiar with both. John Although Mathematica 7 is a very powerful peace of software as far as > the computational part goes it turns out to be quite limited and > unstable when it comes to word editing and processing, despite the > claims in the help that it is almost as powerful as WinWord. > For example it crashed multiple times on me while I was trying to setup > the right fonts and sizes, as a result I lost all my work several > times, it also messed up my fonts, sizes, styles, settings for the > equations, its undo is totally useless and I couldn't figure out how to > format a text and a graphic in two or more columns and display them side > by side in a notebook as well as how to control what goes on what page > and while printing to PDF often it wouldn't print all pages, but just > the first 2-3. > > All that said I'm wondering what program to use to write my work in, and > I'm asking for advice - is WinWord any better when it comes to handling > equations? > Any other choices? > > What is the best way to export Mathematica 7 equations and graphics? >