mob@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Mario O. Bourgoin) (09/19/86)
<A few week back, I asked for WYSIWYG editors for the IBM PC;
particularily those that could handle equations. This is a summary of
replies that I got.>
From: johnth@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (john thurtell)
CHI WRITE: It is a well set up program and works well if you have a
lot of memory and a graphics board... The fonts include the needed
fonts for sci. work; roman, bold roman, small roman (sub nc
superscripts) greek, math, Italics, ... This system does equations in
a way that takes a bit of adjusting to but is very very nice. My only
critisism of the system is that the regular text processor has some
flaws...<but> the system <file format> is compatable with one of the
'standards'. You can get a copy of it from the PCBLUE users group or
you can FTP it from the PCBLUE archives on SIMTEL20.
From: Vincent Broman <broman%bugs@nosc.ARPA>
C H I W R I T E
Horstmann Software Design
P.O. Box 4544
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
From: mlsmith@NADC
VOLKSWRITER SCIENTIFIC: I have not used that version, but am very
happy with Volkswriter Deluxe and Volkswriter 3. The advertised
features allow virtual WYSIWYG capability. Of course more than 80
columns causes horizontal scrolling etc.
From: mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ihnp4!hsi!tankus (Ed Tankus)
EXACT(tm): by Technical Software Support, Inc. It is a memory
resident program that can be called up while you are in your word
processor. It allows you to create and format mathematical equations
and then insert them into your document. You never have to exit the
word processor. The company guarantees that it will work with any
word processing package or it will make it work.
From: Tim Hoverd <mcvax!idec!tim@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Vuwriter: One of the versions of this has the ability to display and
print scientific symbols.
Vuman Computer Systems Ltd
Crawford House
Precinct Centre
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9QT
UNITED KINGDOM
+44 61 273 5315 (telephone)
265871 MONREF G (telex)
From: wucs!cec2!dws3014@seismo.CSS.GOV (David William Sanderson)
T3 (read 'tee cubed'): from Triad software (I think). I have seen
reviews touting it as the ultimate WYSIWYG word processor for
mathematicians. It is very easy to learn and use. It allows many
different fonts, and you can even define fonts if you need to. And
superscripts can have subscripts with superscripts with
superscripts.
<Not directly related but of importance nonetheless were the replies>
From: caip!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!jljl (james e levin)
The Boston Computer Society has put together an extensive report
reviewing the capabilities of a variety of technical word processors
for the IBM PC. I haven't seen it, but they were making it available
for a small fee.
From: Michal Young <young@ICSC.UCI.EDU>
PC-TEX: ...if previewing your formulas on the screen is sufficient,
and you have EGA or Hercules, then consider PC-TeX. The output is
top-notch...Or you can use AMSTeX, which I believe is what the
American Mathematical Society typesets their journals with...you
usually have to make multiple runs through the formatter to get things
to look just the way you want them...it demands a lot of horsepower
(cycles, memory, and disk) from your machine...you need an AT to get
decent turnaround.
Enjoy! And thank you very much!!!
--Mario O. Bourgoin