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Because Scientific WorkPlace is based on LaTeX, it can be used to produce files in the house style of any scientific journal that also uses LaTeX, and the software makes it easy to change the overall style of a document in a single operation. It comes with many predefined styles, but installing a new
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for editing LaTeX source files with the same ease-of-use of a word processor, while maintaining a screen view that resembles but is not identical to the eventual output that LaTeX produces. For instance, its display shows text wrapped to the width of the screen rather than to the eventual page width,
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The developer of Scientific WorkPlace, MacKichan Software, Inc., announced on June 30, 2021 that it had ceased business and would no longer sell licenses to its software. Existing licenses would remain valid, but new installs would need to be verified by its licensing server, which it expected to
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maintain for at least two years. It also announced that Scientific WorkPlace could not be made open source as the software relied on the computer algebra system
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and colored equations rather than the black-and-white rendering that LaTeX would normally produce. It also includes an integrated
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Shone, Ronald (November 1995). "Scientific Word and Scientific Workplace".
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cross-platform alternative with similar functionality
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Document processor
Official website
software package
scientific
word processing
Microsoft Windows
WYSIWYG
LaTeX
word processor
graphical user interface
computer algebra system
MuPAD
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LyX
open-source
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wxMaxima
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Comparison of TeX editors




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