Lars,<br><br>Thanks very much for the reply. I appreciate the link to your article in PracTeX as well. Unfortunately, getting my coauthor (my PhD adviser) to switch from Scientific Word will not be an option so I will manage as best I can! Thanks again.<br>
<br>Tom<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Lars Madsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daleif@imf.au.dk">daleif@imf.au.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Thomas Jacobs wrote:<br>
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Hi, I am a Windows MiKTeX user working in TeXnicCenter and have a<br>
coauthor that is a Scientific Word user. I have struggled to decipher<br>
how to make this operate smoothly as I am the more technology friendly<br>
person in the relationship. Along the way I downloaded a free<br>
Scientific Word Viewer whose most recent iteration is from 2005.<br>
While it permits me to see the LaTeX file output and print if I save<br>
it as read only, much of the material is less than easily accessible<br>
such as footnotes and citation references. I then began trying to<br>
build the document directly in TeXnicCenter and after some web<br>
searches discovered I needed to comment out this line to enable<br>
successful completion:<br>
<br>
\input{tcilatex}<br>
<br>
The following topic post was particularly helpful in this regard:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6906&start=0" target="_blank">http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6906&start=0</a><br>
<br>
One of the most surprising things about this process is that the LaTeX<br>
file generated via Scientific Word uses many LaTeX commands and<br>
structures I am completely ignorant of. The reason I write is to ask<br>
several questions.<br>
<br>
1. On working with a Scientific Word user the aforementioned post<br>
indicated that they (the SW user) should save their document in<br>
Portable LaTeX format. Can anyone comment on whether there are other<br>
things I should ask the coauthor to do in order to manage the editing<br>
process with the least difficulty?<br>
<br>
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<br></div>
you should be prepared that it may be difficult for an SW user to reimport documents prepared by non-SW writers.<br>
<br>
tcilatex is something that comes with SW, it defines several commands that SW makes use of.<br>
<br>
Saving as portable LaTeX should remove most of those macros<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
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2. On simple LaTeX commands I was unable to find (no doubt my fault)<br>
in either Kopka and Daly (2004) or Mittelbach and Goossens (2004):<br>
<br>
a. What is the purpose of a backslash without an appended command?<br>
For example, I find them between all sentences as in this excerpt:<br>
<br>
TIPS are coupon bonds that have been issued by the U.S. government since<br>
1997. \ They are currently auctioned at 5-, 10-, and 30-year maturities. \<br>
Unlike standard Treasury notes and bonds whose coupon and principal are<br>
fixed dollar payments, TIPS make payments proportional to the Consumer Price<br>
Index (CPI).<br>
<br>
I have never seen this before and wondered what purpose it serves.<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
in english, after the dot that ends a sentence, the space after the dot is larger than the interword space.<br>
<br>
but, say one writes 'i.e. there is...' then LaTeX thinks the dot after the 'e' ends a sentence. Thus one usually writes 'i.e.\ ' to get a normal space in this case.<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
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b. Does the following structure<br>
<br>
&=&<br>
<br>
serve to keep the = signs aligned in a multiline equation? If not,<br>
what do the & on each side of the equals sign do?<br>
<br>
Thanks very much for any insight one of you could provide.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
this is native to the eqnarray environment, which sadly most SW configurations use.<br>
<br>
See <a href="http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/madsen" target="_blank">http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/madsen</a>, as to why one should not use eqnarray<br>
<br>
For the makers of SW eqnarray is easy to implement because of a very precise syntax. But the output is not that good.<br><font color="#888888">
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<br>
-- <br>
<br>
/daleif<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thomas Jacobs<br>