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In article <grl.716278230@groucho>, grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann) writes:
> boris@math10.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Boris Hemkemeier) writes:
 
>>Hi folks,
 
>>we (more exactly: some professors in our department) are looking for a
>>WYSIWYG (La)TeX front end. Who works with "Scientific Word" by TCI
>>Software research, Inc.? Experiences and comments are welcome.
 
> Sorry, haven't heard of this one. I am interested in knowing more. Have
> you looked at The Publisher? It uses TeX and LaTeX as back ends and has
> a preview facility but is not strictly speaking WYSIWYG. It does have a
> very nice equation editor, and has been ranked as the best desktop
> publishing program for mathematics in some reviews a couple of years ago.
> I don't know where it stands in comparison to others now. You get it from
> ArborText.

Well, the Publisher is aimed at the SGML market more than the TeX
market. In fact, I don't think that it really produces LaTeX code
that could be sent to a journal as is the case with Scientific
Word. Also there's a dramatic difference in target platforms and
unit cost for the two products. The Publisher is aimed at Unix
workstations (Suns specifically?) Scientific Word at MS Windows
users. Two completely different products.

Perhaps someone with real experience can fill in my gaps on the
Publisher.

-dh