[Mac OS X TeX] another Mac OS X TeX - Commercial though

Troy Goodson Troy.D.Goodson at jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Aug 22 11:57:54 EDT 2001



<x-flowed>At 3:29 PM -0400 8/21/01, Timothy Larkin wrote:
>On Tuesday, August 21, 2001, at 11:26 , George Gratzer wrote:
>
>>But do they have synchronization? Linking the source file and the 
>>typeset file as in Textures?
>
>As far as I can tell, you don't write TeX or LaTeX. The program 
>works a bit like a WISIWIG word processor (it's not quite that 
>simple because of the database features). LaTeX (or HTTP) code is 
>created by the program during an export operation.

That's my impression, too.  It wasn't until I tried to print a 
document that it generated the LaTeX code and made a PDF.  I open the 
LaTeX code in TeXShop and made another PDF that to me looked 
identical to the one ScientificAssistant made.

I don't know what their formula and table support was like in 
OPENSTEP, but I'm curious as whether it will generate LaTeX on the 
fly to preview your equation or table.


At 8:36 PM +0200 8/16/01, Andreas Hoeschler 
<ahoesch at advanced-science.com>  wrote:
>
>ScientificAssistant is a database-based Document Management and 
>Scientific Wordprocessing System for MacOS X. Unlike other 
>wordprocessors and typesetting applications, ScientificAssistant has 
>been built from the ground-up with scientists in mind, that need to 
>create, exchange and update documents with formula intensive 
>contents very efficiently. Features like
>
>*	WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) wordprocessor
>*	LaTeX (BibTeX,...) export
>*	HTML export
>*	hyperlinks, citations, footnotes,...
>*	database storage
>
>This is a first beta version. Some features have not been 
>implemented (ported from OPENSTEP to MacOSX) yet. Formula and table 
>support for example are still missing in this release. However, we 
>nevertheless invite you to download and check out the software. We 
>believe that it can already be of great value for you.
>
><http://www.advanced-science.com/html/download.html>

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