Re: Mathematica - what replaces AuthorTools?

On Nov 7, 3:49 am, DP <pfenn...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hans wrote:
According to the WRI web site, AuthorTools is now a legacy technology
(surprising giving it only first appeared on ver 4.2). So what
replaces it? Are there any tips/tools for producing good quality
output suitable for a book, PhD thesis?

Nobody said the obvious, but the standard tool for publications in
professional mathematical and physical sciences with the highest
typographical quality is TeX or LaTeX (seehttp://www.ctan.org/what_is_tex.htmlhttp://www.latex-project.org/intro.html
),
public domain software initiated in the late 70's by a mathematician
(Donald Knuth) for mathematicians, but used widely in professional
quality publications in several other fields.

Contrary to commercial systems, TeX enjoys decade long compatibility
of documents due to the fully open specifications, and the exceptional
solidity of the software. This is to contrast with products like
Microsoft Word that not only achieves poor mathematical and general
typesetting, but make long term conservation of documents impossible
due to the successive incompatible versions and the proprietary
file formats.

Dan

Fully agree with this "permanency" as regards TeX. I still have
a couple of papers I wrote in 1981 using the beta version
of Tex-82, which came from Knuth's students next door.
(I had to write a Vax-to-versatec driver in Pascal for it).
Recently tried them on TeXtures and both ran without a
hitch. Can you imagine that for Word?

The situation is not so happy re LaTeX. Too many sloppy
finger on that pie.


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