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Re: Latex, Mathematica, and journals

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• Subject: [mg109808] Re: Latex, Mathematica, and journals
• From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
• Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 06:13:10 -0400 (EDT)
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"Murray Eisenberg" <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote in message 
news:hsr890$bda$1 at smc.vnet.net...

>
> For Windows, too, there's the proprietary BaKoMa system, which provides
> essentially synchronized viewing of source as you typeset and even
> allows you to type text directly into the viewer window. Aside from LyX,
> this is probably the closest you can come today to WYSIWYG for LaTEX.
>

Scientific Word is all GUI front end to Latex.  You do not need to even know 
any latex to use. Its been around since 1992.

One thing I really like about it, is that it includes a symbolic engine 
inside it. I can select an expression in the screen, and then select the 
operation I want to do on the expression, then the result is computed and 
output comes out right there where I have the mouse pointed after the 
expression is, and I can then use this result and continue typing.  It is in 
a way  a Mathematica in reverse.  Mathematica is a symbolic engine first, 
and typesetting second, while Scientific word is typesetting first, and 
symbolic algebra second.

--Nasser