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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 tha
by 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 agoWhat is a replacement? I’ve been thinking about buying it as an easy way to write nice latex looking pdf files
- bachmeier 5y agoLyX 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 agoWhat was it good at 20 years ago? What is it missing now?
- bachmeier 5y agoIt 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.