[OS X TeX] Macintouch report on TeX versus Word

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Thu Jan 22 20:19:09 EST 2009


On  22 Jan, 2009, at 17:23, George Gratzer wrote:

> The interface you are looking for is available commercially:  
> Scientific Word, I reviewed it for the Notices of the AMS in 1994, I  
> believe. But you have to pay a stiff price.
>
> A brand new version (for both Windows and Mac) will be out this year  
> in the summer. I will review it in January 2010 in the Notices.

That's good news. I don't know if I will buy it, but many of the  
Windows users authors I have worked with as a copy-editor, mainly  
mathematicians and physicists, are very fond of Scientific Word.

What intrigues me is why Publicon

http://www.wolfram.com/products/publicon/index.html

never took off ---or at least I think it hasn't.


Best,

Axel



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