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UCH018%DDOHRZ11.BITNET@SHSU.edu (Guenther Neue) writes:
: 
: recently I found an advertisement for a program that is claimed to
: combine latex with wysiwyg under Windows. Has anybody experience with
: that program which is called "SCIENTIFIC word" ?
: 

We have Scientific Word, that is, my advisor, who insists on having 
WYSIWYG and thinks TeX is "gross" has it.  It was a compromise because
his post-docs (myself and another person) are both TeXies and we wanted to
be able to exchange manuscripts easily.  Overall we've been very pleased
with it.  The manual is extremely well written, and the TeX files it 
generates (actually, they're LaTeX format) are completely portable (once
you strip the $%&^%*%&* ^M's that DOS uses) so that he can work on a 
paper in WYSIWYG mode, give it to us on a DOS disc, and then (after 
stripping) we can make corrections and (after re-inserting the ^M's)
give it back.  Note that Scientific Word runs only on DOS machines
(and adding and subtracting the ^M's to go to Unix is no big deal). 

Overall I'd give SW high marks, but (and there's a little irony here)
if you want to do anything fairly non-standard you have to use it's 
facility to insert LaTeX command directly in the file (the irony being
that because of SW my advisor, who was admantly opposed to TeX, has now
learned a fair amount of it :-)

I can provide name/address/phone # is anyone is interested.

Hope this is Helpful -- tom