April 2019
Some further tips and technical support information to make sure our users get the most from Scientific Word/WorkPlace/Notebook.
The current version of Scientific Word, Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook is v6.0.29; if you are running an earlier version (Help – About on Windows, or SW/P – About on a Mac) we recommend you update to the current version when convenient; the installation instructions are here.
We added:Since you already have MiKTeX installed, use MiKTeX rather than TeXLive with Scientific WorkPlace. This means starting to install SWP as normal, but unchecking the box for TeXLive. Then afterwards, from Using MiKTeX with SWP/SW and Windows:From the Windows Start Menu find the MiKTeX group and start the "MiKTeX Settings (Admin)" program. Select the Roots tab and then click the Add button. Navigate to the directory c:\texlive\texmf-local and with this directory selected click OK. Then click the OK button in the admin program to add the files in this directory to the MiKTeX search and close the MiKTeX admin program.
which quickly got him up and running with his new licence.The only other Scientific WorkPlace issues are that:
- The online Activation will not work, and we will supply your licence file by Email for you, once you let us have your Computer ID from Help – Activate. You will then simply need to save this file license.lic in the location specified in Step 8 of our Installation Instructions. <snip>
- You will want to turn off the WhatsNew panel at the right of the working screen, from Actions – Close, since this panel refreshes online
Something strange has happened to my Scientific Work Place software. When I startup v 6.029 I am faced with a notice that it is not licensed and warning me that its functionality will be curtailed.. On activating it I get the message that the software has been activated. Nevertheless when I start SWP again the same message appears...
We asked to see the licence file, but there were no clues there. Just as we were scratching our heads, the user Emailed again with the solution:
We weren't familiar with Acronis True Image before this exchange, and we made a note of the information for the benefit of our other users.I believe I have made some progress in finding out what may have gone wrong and thought you should be told asap as it looks like a collision between Acronis True Image software and SWP. I first removed the license as you hinted at and reactivated. However, the same message appeared. After playing with the software to produce some answers to simple integrals and algebra I got a message from Acronis asking if SWP was a trusted programme. On answering yes and restarting SWP the message no longer appears. Now Acronis in its latest version is taking over some defence roles of the disc and perhaps this has been the reason...
It was straightforward for us to respond with the relevant links:I wonder if you might help me with a question. I use Scientific Word 5.5 and recently typesetting has not worked properly on some documents, when in the past it has.
The specific problem seems to relate to having subscript material that contains an inequality under an integral, intersection, sum etc.. So tex such as
\bigcap_{H \leqslant G}
is not rendered properly in the dvi. The dvi previewer reports
Warning: font "msam8" ("msam8") not in font dictionary
Such tex has rendered fine in the past (I have dvis and pdfs where it has worked).
Do you know how to resolve this problem? And perhaps less importantly the why of it arising?
Back copies of our mailings are available on our mailings page, which you can search with Ctrl-F / Cmd-F.Something has obviously messed around with your fonts: it could be a clean-up utility such as in our October 2012 mailing Item 7… or we’ve also seen it where simply installing new software has caused existing fonts to be forgotten.
The solution is the Repair utility referred to in our July 2010 mailing Item 2. Simply start the downloaded Scientific Word 5.5 (73Mb) available here and then select Repair at the opening screen (as attached). But keep a backup first.
The last we'd heard, MacKichan Software were working on a more sophisticated route for Word import/export using XHTML rather than RTF, and the Email prompted us to pursue it with them. They responded:I am just beginning to use the new Mac version of SW6.
However I cannot manage to import a file in .rtf format, as was possible in the Windows SW5 version.
Please advise.
We regret that this does not provide users with an immediate "Yes, here’s how to do it". Our ball-park estimate would be 6-12 months for this to be fully incorporated into a future release of Scientific Word/WorkPlace (obviously after v6.0.30). At worst, in the meantime, you can always import your RTF into Scientific Word/WorkPlace v5.5 (see our June 2012 mailing Item 3) and then File – Import the resulting .tex file into Scientific Word/WorkPlace v6.0. Alternatively, if it's simply text, you can copy that across via the clipboard with Edit – Paste without formatting.Since Word allows reading and writing in (X)HTML, and can use MathML to represent the mathematics, the plan is to use that to read/write MS Word files. <snip>
Converting [between] HTML is not that hard, and we can probably do it fairly simply, but [not] to put it into 6.0.30. An unknown is that Microsoft made some changes (i.e. departed from the spec) in the MathML that they use...
This software is way too good to keep to yourself! Why not tell your colleagues and co-authors? Perhaps some Emails... maybe a blog post on a mathematics/economics forum? Even easier is to Share our Facebook page – or any of the Product pages on our website – with your Facebook friends. Thanks a lot.