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Re: Re: publicon

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  • Subject: [mg102576] Re: [mg102329] Re: publicon
  • From: Larry Adelston <larrya at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:33:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. The following is a  
published title that was written in Mathematica and exported to LaTeX  
for print.

Mathematica By Example, 4e: http://www.wolfram.com/books/profile.cgi?id=7186

Yours,
Larry
On Aug 5, 2009, at 4:46 AM, divisor wrote:

> Hello MathGroup:
>
> Thanks for this info Larry.
>
> I think what I wanted to type before was TeXSave (now obsolete
> replaced with Export[..."TeX"]).
>
> I know that ther are a few books that were mostly "formatted" in
> Mathematica (the Navigator book & the MathStatica book come to mind).
> And most of the publishing threads here talk about exporting to EPS
> then to LaTeX or exporting MathML.
>
> So, I would like to know:
>
> Has anyone successfully converted a full Mathematica notebook using  
> Export[]
> or File-->SaveAs--> (name).tex and then pushed it over to a TeX
> implmentation (e.g. LyX) and had this "look correct"?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards..
> On Aug 4, 1:25 am, Larry Adelston <lar... at wolfram.com> wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> Please see my responses below.
>>
>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 4:46 AM, divisor wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Larry & MathGroup:
>>
>>> Does using Publicon obviate the need for LyX completely?
>>
>> Yes, if you are only trying to produce LaTeX formats that are
>> supported by Publicon. However, Publicon is neither a TeX editor nor
>> viewer. TeX is merely a document export format, and you may, at some
>> point, need to edit the TeX output directly for publication (to
>> finesse page breaks for example).
>>
>>
>>
>>> Can you say if Publicon will be subsumed under/inside TeXForm[]?
>>
>> No, TeXForm[] is used primarily for converting mathematical
>> expressions one-by-one. If you want to export an entire document, you
>> must use LaTeX export.
>>
>>
>>
>>> What does Publicon do with active elements (e.g. Manipulate[],  
>>> Dynamic
>>> [], et.al.)?
>>
>> Publicon is currently incompatible with these new active elements,
>> they would have to be converted to static objects or graphics.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Larry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I did some testing with TeXFom[] and I found it cannot "eat"
>>> Graphics3D
>>> [], let alone Dynamic[]. But it does process even amazingly
>>> complicated formulas very nicely!
>>
>>> Regards..
>>
>>> Roger Williams
>>> Franklin Laboratory
>>
>>> On Jun 30, 3:34 am, Larry Adelston <lar... at wolfram.com> wrote:
>>>> On Jun 27, 2009, at 5:01 AM, alexxx.ma... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>>> I just finished writing an article using LyX to have - as a final
>>>>> product - a LaTeX file to submit.
>>>>> Although I rather like LyX (http://www.lyx.org), since I use
>>>>> Mathematica so much I was interested in seeing how well it
>>>>> performs in
>>>>> LaTeX production.
>>
>>>>>> From what I read in this group I see that I would need to buy
>>>>> Publicon, but I have a couple of caveats - hope you can help me:
>>
>>>>> 1) from an old post, mathematica people recently stated (February
>>>>> 2008, post by Steve Luttrell ) that:
>>>>> "...we're still working on publicon. We all got sidetracked trying
>>>>> to finish
>>>>> M6, but now we're starting up again. We are actively coding a 1.1
>>>>> release,
>>>>> and after that we will be integrating it into Mathematica as a
>>>>> paclet to
>>>>> exploit v6 features, and also as a stand-alone app, Publicon v2."
>>
>>>>> any fresher news?
>>
>>>> We are continuing to support Publicon, and parts of it are  
>>>> currently
>>>> being developed as native functionality in Mathematica. We may also
>>>> continue to offer an updated standalone version based on  
>>>> Mathematica
>>>> Player.
>>
>>>>> 2) most important, plain LaTeX export is useless without support  
>>>>> for
>>>>> document classes. Does Publicon supports them? I'm mostly looking
>>>>> for
>>>>> RevTex4, and IEEEtran. Moreover, it would be useless without the
>>>>> possibility to add new classes on the fly: often conferences ask  
>>>>> you
>>>>> to download their class package...
>>
>>>> Publicon already supports export to RevTeX. And we are in the  
>>>> process
>>>> of expanding Publicon's, as well as Mathematica's, LaTeX export and
>>>> import capabilities.
>>
>>>> Your,
>>>> Larry
>>
>>>>> thank you for any help...
>>
>>>>> alessandro
>>
>>>> __________________________________
>>>> Larry Adelston
>>>> Print Production Supervisor
>>>> Wolfram Research Inc.
>>>> email: lar... at wolfram.com
>>>> phone: 217-398-0700, ext.: 3204
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>> __________________________________
>> Larry Adelston
>> Print Production Supervisor
>> Wolfram Research Inc.
>> email: lar... at wolfram.com
>> phone: 217-398-0700, ext.: 3204
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