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I used Scientific Word to write my dissertation and my first academic papers. It was a great piece of software in the late 1990s, at least relative to the alter
by bachmeier 5y ago
I used Scientific Word to write my dissertation and my first academic papers. It was a great piece of software in the late 1990s, at least relative to the alternatives, which were writing .tex files yourself or typing in a word processor. I have a coauthor that still uses SW.
I can't say this is surprising. I moved to LyX long ago, and then after markdown became popular I ditched LyX and went with that. There are lots of strong alternatives today. There probably aren't many people willing to pay for something they can get for free, that they already have, or that doesn't provide features for collaboration.
- SloopJon 5y agoHow does Markdown fill the niche of TeX or Scientific Word? Is there a mathematically oriented fork? You mentioned R Markdown in another comment, but I don't see anything in the gallery that looks germane.
- dunham 5y agopandoc will turn markdown with TeX formatted equations into PDF or html (relying on tex and mathjax, respectively). It can also turn it into TeX if you need to tweak stuff. A number of other systems like Obsidian (for note taking) use markdown and integrate MathJaX or KaTeX to render TeX formatted equations.
- bachmeier 5y agoPandoc includes math support out of the box. R Markdown is actually built on top of Pandoc. I know many academics that write their papers in (Pandoc) markdown and then convert to PDF. It creates an intermediate .tex file that is then converted to PDF.