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I feel terrible when I come across great products while they shutdown.. why I didn't know it?

• bachmeier 5y ago
  In 2021 there's honestly not any good reason to know about Scientific Word. It was a good product 20 years ago, but it doesn't bring much to the table today that you'd have a reason to pay for.
  • liketochill 5y ago
    What is a replacement? I’ve been thinking about buying it as an easy way to write nice latex looking pdf files
    • bachmeier 5y ago
      LyX is very popular. TeXmacs is not exactly latex, but it does a good job. Things built on markdown like RStudio/R markdown. Many like Overleaf, though I haven't used it much. Even MS Word isn't terrible these days.
  • wolverine876 5y ago
    What was it good at 20 years ago? What is it missing now?
    • bachmeier 5y ago
      It made it easy to create latex documents without having to type latex code. It was especially handy for creating equations and tables. I don't know that it's missing anything today, it just doesn't provide a lot of value over something like LyX (that is open source and doesn't cost anything) or even a good markdown editor.