A breve verrà rilasciata la nuova versione 6 dei software MacKichan che supporteranno in maniera nativa i sistemi operativi Linux e Mac OS/X, oltre allo standard Windows.

Numerose sono le nuove caratteristiche che verranno introdotte con la versione 6; tra le più importanti troviamo:

La versione 6 subirà un sostanziale aumento di prezzo in quanto ormai da 5 anni il prezzo resta invariato.
Acquistando oggi la versione 5.5 si avrà diritto all'aggiornamento gratuito alla versione 6, appena verrà rilasciata.

Beamer presentations in Version 5.5

Now you can create beautiful, typeset PDF presentations using Beta support for the Beamer with Version 5.5 of Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word. Choose among many available layouts and create dynamic transitions from slide to slide. Create presentations containing text, mathematics, graphics, and animations. Download and install a self-extracting file.

The LaTeX Beamer document class

The LaTeX Beamer document class produces presentations, handouts, and transparency slides as typeset PDF files. The class provides global and local control of layout, color, and fonts; a variety of list and list display mechanisms; and many dynamic transitions between slides. Beamer presentations can contain text, mathematics, graphics, and animations.

A single SWP or SW file contains an entire Beamer presentation. You define global formatting with commands in the preamble. You create each slide in the presentation inside frame environments, which are defined with fragments provided as part of the support. Transitions are also defined with fragments.

The download includes the Beamer User Guide. Running the self-extracting program installs the User Guide in the TCITeX/TeX/LaTeX/contrib/beamer/doc directory of your program installation. The class is installed in the TCITeX/TeX/LaTeX/contrib/beamer directory.

Scientific Word: Makes Typesetting and Publishing with LaTeX Easier.

Scientific Word Version 5.5 makes creating professional documents easy. With Scientific Word, you compose mathematical, scientific, and technical documents at the keyboard using natural mathematical notation. You can choose whether to publish your document on the Web using HTML or PDF or print it with or without LaTeX typesetting.

Typesetting Made Easy

In Scientific Word, you can choose to typeset complex technical documents with LaTeX, the industry standard for mathematics typesetting. Because of its superior precision and quality, publishers and writers of scientific material use LaTeX extensively. When you typeset, LaTeX automatically generates footnotes, indexes, bibliographies, tables of contents, and cross-references.

This typesetting power comes without your having to learn LaTeX. Many of the more than 150 document shells have been designed to meet the typesetting requirements of specific professional journals and institutions. Scientific Word automatically saves your documents as LaTeX files. You can concentrate on writing a correct paper; Scientific Word makes it a beautiful one.

Sharing Your Work Is Easy

Scientific Word simplifies working with colleagues in other locations. Version 5.5 includes a new input filter for importing files created in native LaTeX. The filter can read many macro definitions not created in Scientific Word.

The program also includes support for pdfTeX. Before passing your file to the pdfTeX processor, Scientific Word converts all the graphics in your file to a form that can be processed by pdfLaTeX. Also, documents that use the Hyperref package produce PDF documents that are fully hyperlinked, with links in the table of contents and with hierarchical bookmarks corresponding to the structure of your document. This combination of support for embedded graphics with a large variety of formats and full hyperlinking makes the PDF documents produced by Scientific Word superior both to the results of pdfLaTeX alone and to the results of Acrobat. When you use pdfTeX to print your document, you can use PostScript-related packages such as Rotating or the PSNFSS font packages that were previously unsupported in the program.

Scientific Word imports text (.txt) and Rich Text Format (.rtf) files, and exports documents to RTF format for importing into Microsoft Word. The mathematics in your document are converted to Microsoft Equation Editor or MathType 5 format.

You can create .dvi, .htm, .pdf, or .rtf files from your documents, or generate portable LaTeX output for seamless transfer to different LaTeX installations. Also, you can copy content to the clipboard for export as text or graphics to other applications. The Document Manager simplifies file transfer by email or on diskette.

Increased Productivity

This software thinks like you do. Whether you prefer to use the mouse or the keyboard, entering mathematics is so straightforward there is practically no learning curve. Formatting is fast, simple, and consistent. In Scientific Word, you use tags to define the document structure and format it consistently.

Users have reported significant productivity increases when support staff use Scientific Word instead of raw LaTeX to typeset documents. Both technical and non-technical users can quickly learn to enter and number equations, create tables and matrices, and import graphics, all with pleasing on-screen mathematics and italics created with TrueType outline fonts.

Scientific Word has the tools that simplify writing and editing books and other large documents. It is perfect for writers in academic, industrial, and government institutions and in all scientific and technical fields: mathematics, physics, engineering, economics, chemistry, computer science, statistics, medical research, and logic.

The software comes with an extensive online help system and a series of reference manuals. If you need additional help, MacKichan Software provides reliable, prompt, free technical support.

International, Interoperable, Indispensable

Spelling, font, and hyphenation support for languages other than English is available. You can switch languages in the same document using Babel, the multilingual LaTeX system. The software supports input using any left-to-right language supported by a version of Windows, including Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It uses the in-place IME (Input Method Editor) for these languages. (The ability to typeset a language may depend on the availability of TeX for that language. Non-Latin character sets are typeset with Lambda, which is included.) Fully localized Japanese and German versions of Scientific Word are available now through our local distributors.

Scientific Word has a built-in link to the World Wide Web. If you have Internet access, you can open the file at any URL address from inside the program. Also, you can deliver content via the Web. The software supports hypertext links, so you can facilitate navigation for your readers through a series of related documents. Readers can view and print documents using Scientific Viewer, which we distribute at no cost.

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Features in Version 5.5

Version 5.5 adds the following features to the compatibility, typesetting, and computation capabilities of Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook:

Compute and plot. In SWP and SNB, compute and create plots right in your document.
Animate 2D and 3D plots. With newly-implemented renderers, create animated 2D plots in polar coordinates, animated 2D and 3D plots in rectangular coordinates, animated 2D and 3D implicit plots, and animated 3D tube plots and plots in cylindrical and spherical coordinates and vector fields. Define an Animation Variable for the plot and specify the animation start and end times and the rate of frames per second.
Manipulate and inspect 3D plots. Rotate, move, zoom in and out, and fly through 3D plots.
Explore plots and animations with the VCAM window. View plots in read-only or read-write documents using the VCAM window with playback toolbar controls. Use your mouse to start, stop, re-run, and loop animations; change the animation speed; rotate; and zoom-all from the VCAM toolbar.
Label 2D and 3D plots. Now you can enhance your SWP and SNB plots with text labels that move with the plot when you rotate or zoom. You can specify the location of the label within the plot both horizontally and vertically, and you can set the orientation of the plot precisely..
Create 3D implicit plots. Plot equations involving three variables.
Use completely revised instructions. The new edition of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook explains how to use the built-in computer algebra system to do mathematics and create plots without dealing directly with the syntax of the computer algebra system.
Collaborate more easily. Now you can import the contents of files created directly in LaTeX or LaTeX2e into SWP or SW using a special non-SWP/SW LaTeX filter, even if you can't open the files directly. The filter can read many macro definitions not created with the program.
Extend typesetting capabilities with new LaTeX packages. Take advantage of the many new packages in Version 5.5 to enable specific LaTeX behaviors and extend the program's typesetting capabilities.
Get troubleshooting help. A new, expanded edition of Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word provides more typesetting tips and tricks, new information about LaTeX packages that have been added to the program, and a brand new chapter on troubleshooting problems that can arise.

Compatibility

You can interact with colleagues more easily and distribute your documents in different formats when you take advantage of new and enhanced export filters in Version 5.

Export your documents as RTF files. You can export your SWP, SW, and SNB documents as Rich Text Format (RTF) files, so that interactions with colleagues in non-TeX environments are simplified. The RTF export preserves the formatting you see in the document window. Any mathematics in your document can be represented with MathType 3 (Equation Editor) or MathType 5 objects. The resulting RTF file can be viewed in Microsoft Word even if an Equation Editor is not part of the Word installation. If the Microsoft Word installation includes the appropriate Equation Editor, any MathType 3 or MathType 5 mathematical objects in the RTF file can be edited. The file can also be displayed in outline mode.
Read MathType mathematics in RTF files. In Version 5, you can open and read the MathType equations in RTF files when you import the RTF files in SWP, SW, or SNB. The equations are converted to LaTeX.
Create more accurate HTML files. When you export your SWP, SW, or SNB documents to HTML, the program places any graphics generated during the process in a subdirectory. This version successfully exports fixed-width tables to HTML and saves the screen format to a Cascading Style Sheet (.css file). With HTML exports, you can make your mathematics available on various platforms over the Internet and in applications that can read HTML files.
Export mathematics as MathML. When you export HTML files, you can output your mathematics as MathML or graphics. Note that not all HTML browsers support MathML.

Typesetting

Version 5 provides new typesetting capabilities and many new document shells, some intended for international use.

Create typeset PDF files. Now you can share your work across platforms in PDF format by typesetting your SWP and SW documents with pdfLaTeX. No extra software is necessary to generate PDF files. The program automatically embeds fonts and graphics in the PDF file.
Use pdfTeX to process files that contain graphics. Until now, using pdfTeX with most graphics file formats has been tedious or impossible. Before typesetting your document with pdfLaTeX, Version 5 of SWP and SW converts any graphics in the document to formats that can be processed by pdfLaTeX before typesetting.
Preserve LaTeX cross-references in PDF files. If you add the hyperref package to your document, any cross-references in your SWP or SW document are converted to hypertext links when you typeset with pdfLaTeX. The package extends hypertext capabilities with hypertext targets and references. Additionally, pdfLaTeX fully links the table of contents in the resulting PDF file and includes in the file hierarchical markers and thumbnail pictures of all the pages in the document.
Use LaTeX PostScript packages. If you create PDF files from your SWP and SW documents, you can take advantage of LaTeX packages, such as the rotating package.
Use expanded typesetting documentation. A new edition of Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word provides more typesetting tips and information about more LaTeX packages. Learn how to tailor typesetting specifications from inside the program to achieve the typeset document appearance you need.
Examine an expanded gallery of shells. View images of sample documents for each shell provided with the program in A Gallery of Document Shells for Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, provided on the program CD as a PDF file. Use the documentation to choose document shells appropriately.
Choose shells tailored for international documents. Version 5 includes shells for documents created in non-English languages, including German, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian. SWP and SW, in combination with TrueTeX, support international typesetting with the Lambda system.

Computation

Complex computational capability makes SWP and SNB indispensable tools.

Compute. In SWP and SNB, compute right in your document with a computer algebra engine.
Compute with MathType mathematics in RTF files. If you open an RTF file containing MathType equations, the program converts the equations to LaTeX. In SWP and SNB, you can compute with the mathematics just like any other mathematics in SWP and SW documents.
Use an improved Exam Builder. The Version 5 Exam Builder is fully functional. Printed quizzes can be reloaded without losing their math definitions, just like other documents. Exam Builder materials generated with earlier versions work successfully in Version 5.

Until now, traditional typesetting and symbolic computation systems forced you to use an array of commands and a complex syntax to represent your input. Many of these systems have over 2,000 separate operators, such as int and diff, that you must learn in order to create input. For example, if you want to integrate the expression
MATH: expression
using a traditional computation system, you must enter it in linear fashion, int(x\2/sqrt(x\2-9),dx). To typeset it with LaTeX, you must write $\int\frac{x\{2}}{\sqrt{x\{2}-9}}dx$ . A simple typing mistake would cause an error message.

Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook eliminate the need to learn complex syntax by using natural notation for input and to show results. With these products, you can enter mathematics easily with the mouse, or, as you gain confidence and familiarity, with keyboard shortcuts.

Here is how you enter the above integral using the mouse in Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook:

Entering an integral using the mouse

Step # Action Result

1. Click Integral button $\int$

2. Click Fraction button $\int \frac{{}}{{}}$

3. Type x, click Superscript button , type 2

4. Click in the denominator box, click Radical button

5. Repeat step #3, click to the right

6. Type -9, click to the far right

7. Type dx

You can also enter the integral using only the keyboard. Here we use "Ctrl+i" to mean hold down the Ctrl key while you press the "i" key:

Entering an integral using the keyboard

Step # Type Result

1 Ctrl+i $\int$

2 Ctrl+f $\int \frac{{}}{{}}$

3 x, Ctrl+up arrow, 2

4 space Moves the insertion point
out of the exponent

5 Tab Moves the insertion point
to the denominator

6 Ctrl+r

7 Repeat steps 3 and 4

8 -9

9 space space Moves the insertion point
out of the radical, then the fraction

10 dx

In Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook, the space key always moves the insertion point out of the object it is in, and the Tab key always moves the insertion point to the next input box in the current template, if there is one. Thus, in step 9, the first space moves the insertion point out of the radical, but leaves it in the denominator of the fraction. The second space moves it out of the fraction. Pressing the Ctrl key together with the up or down arrow key moves the insertion point up or down to a superscript or a subscript position. The space key returns the insertion point to the main line. Ctrl+up arrow followed by Ctrl+down arrow moves the insertion point to the subscript of a superscript position, not to the main line.

All the symbols in the main TeX fonts are available in Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook, which means you have everything you need to type mathematics. Also, if you know the TeX names for mathematical objects and symbols, you can use them (for example, holding down Ctrl while you type int enters an integral). You do not need to know TeX names to enter mathematics.

Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook are designed to increase productivity for anyone who writes technical documents, especially those containing mathematics. They are perfect for writers in all technical fields: mathematics, physics, engineering, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, statistics, medical research, operations research, logic, and more.

Logical Design Separates Content and Appearance

Our approach, known as logical design, separates the creative process of writing from the mechanical process of formatting. You apply tags to text to say what the text is; the software handles the job of formatting it. Logical design leads to a more consistent and attractive document appearance because choices of fonts, spacing, emphasis, and other aspects of format are applied automatically. Separating the processes of creating and formatting a document combines the best of the online and print worlds. You concentrate on writing a correct paper; our software makes it a beautiful paper. Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word come with over 150 predefined document shells. Over 20 shells are available with Scientific Notebook.

Logical Design Is a New Way of Working

When you use a WYSIWYG system, you constantly give commands that affect the appearance of the content. You select text and then choose a font, a font size, or a typeface. You apply alignment commands such as center, left justify, and right justify. To center an equation, for example, you select it and choose the center alignment. In a logical system, formatting commands are replaced by commands that define the logical structure of the content instead of its appearance. Rather than center text, you create a title, a section head, or a displayed equation by applying tags to information in the document. The format of the title, the alignment of section heads, and the alignment of displayed equations are all determined separately by the properties of the tags you use. In Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, tag properties are determined by the document's typesetting specifications (a collection of commands that define the way the document appears when you produce it with LaTeX typesetting) and by the style (a collection of commands that define the way the document appears onscreen and when you produce it without LaTeX typesetting.) In Scientific Notebook, the tag properties are determined by the style only, since it does not include LaTeX typesetting.

Also, WYSIWYG systems divide documents into pages according to their anticipated appearance in print. To see an entire line, you often have to scroll horizontally because the screen dimensions and page dimensions do not match. In a logical system, working with pages is unnecessary, because the division of a document into pages has no connection to the document's logical structure. Thus, on the screen Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook break lines to fit the window. If you resize the window, the text is reshaped to fit it.

Logical Design Ensures a Beautiful Document Appearance

Our emphasis on logical structure does not ignore the fact that documents must still be printed in a readable, organized, and visually pleasing format, nor does it ignore the fact that you may not always need publication-quality output. With Version 4 and later of Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, you can preview and print your documents in two ways. You can compile, preview, and print your documents with LaTeX to obtain a high-quality, typeset appearance, or you can preview and direct print without typesetting for a near-WYSIWYG appearance. With Scientific Notebook, only direct printing is available.

The factors to consider in publishing mathematics-intensive documents on the Web are the same as publishing any other content online:

Your Web Publishing Options

With Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook, you can create mathematics-intensive information for the web in .tex files, HTML or XHTML files, or PDF files.

Creating .tex files

You can create your document as a .tex file, just as you would create any other SWP, SW, or SNB document. No special action is required. You can then place the file directly on the Web. When the file is saved to a reader's SWP, SW, or SNB installation, any mathematics in the file is live. Readers who do not yet have SWP, SW, or SNB can view the files with Scientific Viewer. If you have SWP, SW, or SNB.

Creating HTML or XHTML files

With our software, you can export your .tex file as HTML or XHTML. All mathematics and plots are ordinarily exported as graphics, but you can also choose to export mathematics as MathML, the HTML counterpart for mathematical content. The program supports MathML for Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher and for Netscape7/Firefox.

We recommend exporting to XHTML when you use MathML. The mathematics in an HTML or XHTML file is not live. View the same sample .tex file exported to HTML with mathematics as graphics.

With Version 5.x of SWP or SW, you can typeset compile your file with pdfLaTeX. The result is a stunning PDF file that you can post on the web. Since SWP and SW convert all the graphics in your document to a form that pdfLaTeX can use, there are no limitations on the kinds of graphics you can include (as there are if you use pdfLaTeX without our software). If you use the hyperref package in your document, your PDF file will be fully hyperlinked with links in the table of contents and with hierarchical bookmarks that reflect the structure of your document. View these samples:

With SNB and with earlier versions of SWP or SW, you can create PDF files of your documents if you have Adobe Acrobat Distiller installed. Create your document, then from the File menu, Print to Acrobat Writer or Distiller. Note that the resulting file will not be hyperlinked. View these samples:

Your Readers' Web Viewing Options

Your readers can access .tex, HTML, XHTML, or PDF files created with SWP, SW, or SNB in a variety of ways. Each has advantages and disadvantages.

Using Scientific Viewer

If your readers don't have SWP, SW, or SNB, we recommend that they use our free Scientific Viewer to access the SWP, SW, or SNB .tex documents you place on the Web. Using Scientific Viewer has these advantages:

However, readers must download the free software (12 MB) before viewing your document. Also, Scientific Viewer is currently available only for Microsoft Windows® platforms.

Of course, your readers can also use any of our software products-SWP, SW, or SNB-for maximum flexibility.

Using an HTML browser

Documents created with Version 4 or above of SWP, SW, or SNB can be exported in several HTML formats. You can export any mathematics and plots in these graphics formats: .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jpg, .png, or .wmf. Documents exported to HTML have these advantages:

Note that the files download relatively slowly (though more quickly with MathML), and the mathematics in the files is not live.

Using a browser that can read MathML

When you export to HTML or XHTML, any mathematics in the document can be exported as MathML. MacKichan Software is a corporate member of the MathML standard committee, and is committed to supporting XML and MathML. Our products can produce documents using MathML designed for viewing by Netscape Navigator 7 and above, MathPlayer (a free MathML rendering plug-in from Design Science), and IBM techexplorer. Using MathML has these advantages:

However, the mathematics is not live. MathML is not supported by all HTML browsers, and it is interpreted differently by different browsers, so not all readers may see the same thing.

Using a PDF reader

Readers who have the free Adobe Acrobat reader can read PDF files created from SWP and SW Version 5 documents using pdfLaTeX. Authors with SNB can create PDF files with Adobe Distiller. Although readers must download the free software before viewing your document, PDF files offer these advantages:

Creating and Grading On-Line Tests with Exam Builder

Exam Builder takes advantage of the capabilities built into Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook, yielding some of the most powerful features available in algorithmic exam generation. Use random number functions, tables, and graphics in a document. Create a wide variety of course materials for use in your courses: exams, quizzes, tests, tutorials, problem sets, drills, or homework assignments.

Save Time by Eliminating Manual Grading

After course materials are created algorithmically, Exam Builder can be used for on-line and automatic grading. How much time you save depends on your teaching and exam style.

How Exam Builder Works

Exam Builder generates course materials from source files you create with Scientific WorkPlace or Scientific Notebook. You specify an exam problem with formulas and conditions, which may contain random numbers and conditions to be satisfied by the quantities computed from the random numbers. When a quiz is read by Scientific WorkPlace or Scientific Notebook, actual numbers are generated until all the conditions are satisfied. Each time a student opens your quiz, the details of each question will be different.

Invaluable Tool

Regardless of the level at which you teach-arithmetic, trigonometry, algebra, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, probability, or statistics-you'll find the Exam Builder invaluable.

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Choose the product that fits your work best

Our software programs make communicating mathematical ideas easier. The product that's right for you depends on the tasks you need to accomplish.

Choose If you need to	Scientific WorkPlace	Scientific Word	Scientific Notebook
Create mathematical documents
Typeset your documents with LaTeX
Publish books or journal articles
Collaborate with LaTeX users
Compute symbolically and numerically
Publish on the web
Develop a mathematical website
Write exams and course materials
Program and debug mathematical applications
Plot and animate 2D and 2D graphs
Teach and study mathematics and science at the undergraduate and secondary school levels

Products designed with mathematics in mind

Our word processing products all share the same easy-to-learn, easy-to-use scientific word processor. You use natural mathematical notation to enter and edit mathematics in the same environment as text. Convenient, configurable editing and symbol toolbars simplify your work. And you can quickly learn to enter equations, create tables and matrices, import graphics, and perform a standard array of document-based tasks.

Our word processing products export directly to HTML, with mathematics exported as graphics or as MathML. Publishing mathematical documents on the Internet has never been so easy.

Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word use LaTeX, the industry standard for mathematics typesetting, to produce beautiful mathematical documents. When you typeset your documents, LaTeX automatically generates tables of contents, footnotes, indexes, bibliographies, and cross-references. Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word simplify the production of journal articles, books, and other large documents.

Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook add a computer algebra engine for symbolic and numeric computation. The mathematical expressions you create are live. With just a mouse click, you can evaluate, simplify, solve, and plot mathematical expressions right in your document. No complex syntax is necessary. Use the built-in Exam Builder to construct exams and course materials algorithmically, and generate, grade, and record quiz results on a web server. Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook are ideal for long distance learning and classroom instruction, and for writing reports, research papers, and homework.

The full-featured computer algebra system is designed for imperative, functional, and object-oriented programming. The notebook interface includes an integrated source-level debugger, a profiler, a graphics tool for visualization, and hypertext help.

Student versions

We offer students greatly reduced prices on all our software products. That doesn't mean the software is diminished in any way, though. Our student versions are identical to the professional versions, except for the prices.

Summary

Choose Scientific WorkPlace if you write for publication and need a computer algebra system
Choose Scientific Word if you write for publication
Choose Scientific Notebook for writing exams or homework and the easiest-to-use computer algebra system

Italian Language Dictionary

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The Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word and Scientific Notebook CD contains 19 additional spell checkers. Licensing for these additional products are available to purchase separately.

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