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Technical reference for Version 3.0

Introduction

This document assumes a knowledge of LaTeX in certain sections. The explanations are extremely terse in places. If you need further clarification or information on a topic not covered here, contact our Technical Support staff.

This document is included with Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace 3.0. Scientific Word does not include the link to the Maple computational program. The directory referenced in this document, \swp30, is the default directory for Scientific WorkPlace. The default directory for Scientific Word is \sw30.

Two ways to produce documents

With or without LaTeX typesetting

With Version 3.0, you have two ways to produce your document: with and without LaTeX typesetting. When you need the beautiful document formatting that LaTeX provides, typeset your document with the commands on the Typeset menu. Typesetting provides hyphenation, kerning, ligatures and many other precise typesetting features. Typesetting also involves the automatic generation of document elements such as footnotes, margin notes, tables of contents and indexes.

For everyday printing of documents such as class handouts, letters or memos, for which fine formatting is less important, print from the File menu. The program prints your document using the new Page Setup specifications and the same routines it uses to display the document in the program window. The Page Setup dialog box provides settings for page margins and for headers and footers. Page numbers are the only automatically supplied objects available for headers and footers.

The two processes are different and so are their printed results. Regardless of how you produce your document, the program still saves it as a LaTeX file.

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New Typeset menu and Typeset toolbar

The commands on the new Typeset menu control typesetting your documents via TeX.

• The Front Matter command, which was available from the File menu, is unchanged. Use it to enter the author, title, publication date and abstract of your document.

• The Preamble command, which was available from Document Info on the File menu, is unchanged. Use it to enter raw LaTeX code to the preamble of your document.

• The Bibliography Choice command, which was also available from Document Info on the File menu, is unchanged. Use it to choose a manual bibliography or a BibTeX bibliography for your document.

• The Options and Packages commands make it easier to add LaTeX options and packages to your document typesetting specifications. In previous versions, packages and options were added from the Style dialog.

• The Compile, Preview, and Print commands process your document through LaTeX. These commands were available from the File menu in previous versions. Buttons for these commands also appear on the new Typeset toolbar.

• The Expert Settings command provides a way to change the previewer driver, print driver, TeX formatter and other general typesetting options used to produce typeset documents.

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Portable LaTeX output

Portable LaTeX, a new output filter included with Version 3.0, provides much greater portability of your documents to other LaTeX installations than was previously available. The new output filter does not insert the line \input{tcilatex} in your documents. Scientific WorkPlace will include in your document standard LaTeX packages such as amsmath and graphicx. Note, however, that it will use only those packages that should be standard on most LaTeX installations.

Portable LaTeX is not available for Style Editor styles nor for styles created under LaTeX 2.09. RevTeX styles are part of the LaTeX 2.09 family of styles.

To save a file with the new portable LaTeX filter, change the Save as Portable LaTeX (*.tex) in the File Save As dialog. You can also set this new filter as your default output filter in the file page of the Tools User Setup dialog. The old output filter is still available: to use it, choose SW/SWP/SN Document (*.tex) as the Save as type in the File Save As dialog.

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Internet access, document links, and navigation

The program can open its own .tex files over the web in two ways. You can

• Use File Open Location to type a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

• Use Insert Field to enter a hypertext link with an URL target.

The File Open Location dialog box has a drop-down list that remembers recently opened URLs. The .tex files at URL locations are read-only files. When you save the files locally, you can use the information they contain in your own documents. You can also perform computations on the mathematics they contain.

A web-related item appears on the Help menu:

• Click Web Site to open the Web site using an external Web browser.

Cross-document hypertext links

Hypertext links can have URL targets as well as local file targets outside the current document. You can also specify a marker within a document using the standard HTML syntax. The History list retains information across documents. You can access the list with Go History.

The combination of Internet access and cross-document hypertext links means that The program follows the model of standard web browsers, using TeX documents in place of HTML documents.

Document links

Document links are a special form of hypertext links that provide the mechanism for uniform navigation of "chunked" documents. Online documents should be constructed as a series of small documents that, for the most part, can fit on a single screen. You use document links to connect the documents together in a logical structure without having to include hypertext links in the actual text of your documents.

You establish document links using the File Document Info Links dialog box. You access linked documents from the Go Links menu or from the Link toolbar. The Link toolbar serves as an external navigation tool; it speeds moving from document to document.

Internal navigation

The Navigate toolbar serves as an internal navigation tool; it speeds moving around within your document and shows the structure of the document.

Both external and internal jumps appear on the History list.

Icons for hypertext links and external program calls

You can use icons in place of text as the visible anchors for hypertext links and external program calls. When the mouse moves over icons that are serving as anchors, the mouse pointer appears as a pointing hand.

Recycling read-only windows

In the Tools/User Setup/Files page, you can set a limit for the number of read-only windows open at one time. When you reach this number, opening a new read-only window closes the least recently used window. The program is a multiple document interface (MDI) application, while the standard browsers are single document interface (SDI) applications. In an MDI application, you want to control read/write windows yourself. At the same time, you may want several read-only windows open at one time.

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Updated TeX

Version 3.0 uses the June 97 version of LaTeX and the 4.1E version of the TrueTeX formatter and previewer. Additionally, version 3.0 includes the Standard LaTeX format as well as the Multilingual LaTeX format. If you need the use of hyphenation patterns, Babel, and an extensive character set in order to switch between languages, use Multilingual LaTeX. If you don't need these features, use Standard LaTeX format.

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Help files

All Help files are in the program's native document form, as a series of hyperlinked documents. The online Help has been expanded.

The content of Doing Mathematics with Scientific WorkPlace has been modified for the new online format and is available through Help Contents and Help/Index/Computing Techniques.

Reference materials are provided for mathematics and physics. Other materials will be added as they become available. This material is available through Help/Index/Reference Library.

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Computations

Maple Release 4

The Maple Release 4 kernel has been integrated with Version 3.0 of Scientific WorkPlace. Features that use this new kernel are

• Improved piecewise functions.

• Partial differential equations.

Separate computation spaces

Each Scientific WorkPlace document now maintains an independent set of Maple definitions. The Maple Settings Definition Options dialog box now applies to individual documents, and is no longer global. There is no need to clear existing definitions when a document is loaded. We have set the defaults to always save and to always restore definitions.

Each view of a document shows the same set of definitions.

Units

Version 3.0 of Scientific WorkPlace provides for computations with named physical units. You enter various units for physical quantities using the Insert Unit Name dialog box. For example, if you enter the expression and choose Maple/Evaluate, the result is .Conversions are achieved using Maple/Solve Exact:

Auto-recognize strings are supplied for most units. In most cases, these strings are the unit name preceded with the letter u. For example, if you are in mathematics and type , the result is . An exception is the string ume, for meters—um alone would disallow the use of the string umi, for miles.

You can set the color used for units in the Tag Appearance dialog box.

Points from plots

In Scientific WorkPlace, you can see the coordinates of the mouse pointer on a plot, and you can click to record the current position. To start the process, double-click a two-dimensional plot and then choose the new (x,y) tool. A special dialog box appears with a readout of the current point. Each time you click the plot, a point is recorded.

You can select points in the dialog box for removal, or for pasting into your document. For example, if you record points this way and then paste while the plot is still selected, the points are plotted on the graph.

Plot labels and tick marks

In Scientific WorkPlace, you can provide your own plain (ASCII) text for axis labels, and you can control the axis tick marks using the Plot Properties dialog box.

Random matrices

The Maple Matrices Random Matrix dialog box has been expanded so that you can specify the dimension, number range, and matrix type (Unrestricted, Symmetric, Antisymmetric, or Triangular) in Scientific WorkPlace.

Graphing calculator data

The program includes import filters for Casio, Hewlett Packard, and Texas Instruments graphing calculators. The filters import .txt files. Use File/Import Contents and select the appropriate filter.

Stopping computations

The Stop button interrupts a computation. We've added a small arrow to the Maple leaf pointer to help you use this button correctly. When you want to stop a Maple computation in Scientific WorkPlace, move the tip of the arrow so that it's on top of the Stop button, then click the mouse.

Formulas

In Scientific WorkPlace, the new simple formula object provides a way to enter a mathematical expression together with a Maple operation. What appears on your screen is the result of the operation. For example, if you enter in the Formula area and choose Simplify from the Maple menu, on your screen you'll see . The expression is not displayed on the screen.

Math names

Single-character math names are supported. Math name operators and functions/variables are properly preserved during computations.

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Graphics filters

Version 3.0 uses its own WMF file filter. All other filters are either bitmap filters supplied by Accusoft or vector format filters supplied by INSO Corporation. ImageStream Graphics Filters and ImageStream are registered trademarks of Inso Kansas City Corporation:

ImageStream Graphic Filters
Copyright 1991-1999
Inso Kansas City Corporation
All Rights Reserved Corporation.

Tags

Tags in supplied .cst files

Information about the appearance of your document is contained in a .cst file, which can be thought of as a style file. Tags in supplied .cst files have been restricted to a small set that is the intersection of Standard LaTeX Article tag set and the HTML tag set.

Tag Appearance

The Tag Appearance dialog box provides access to a full range of .cst file features so that you can change the appearance of document elements directly. The changes you make in the dialog box directly affect the appearance of direct printing and previewing.

New features include:

• colored backgrounds for paragraphs and lead-ins; Transparent is a color choice

• line spacing

• the ability to hide tags so that they don't appear on the tag bar popup list

• left, right, center, and full justification of paragraphs

• font size for text tags

If you don't want to change the appearance of all documents that use a given style (.cst file), you should choose Save As when you make the first change. This way, you can create a new style that is used by just the current document. If you would like to create documents which use your new .cst file, you can create a shell document which uses it.

User-defined popup notes

You can create your own classes of popup notes by making entries in the appropriate .cst files from an ASCII editor. The icons for these notes must use predefined icon names.

Tags for several different note types have been added to all .cst files supplied with the system:

• Margin Hint

• Solution Note

• Solution

• Problem Solving Hint

• Note

• Answer Note

These special tags activate choices in the Field Insert Note dialog box. When you click one of these notes in a read-only file, a special form of the note dialog box appears—this form shows only the text window with no additional controls. You can see this form of the dialog box by Ctrl-clicking a note in a read/write document.

Body Math

The Body Math tag has been added to each of the supplied cst files. This tag is the default (starting) tag for the document shell named Math Scratchpad—with instructions. If you apply this paragraph tag, pressing the Enter key switches you to mathematics. This makes a very useful environment for performing scratchpad computations anywhere within a document.

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Fonts

Use of Unicode internally

Version 3.0 incorporates a completely new implementation of internal text storage. The new version uses Unicode and associated extended Unicode TrueType fonts, and allows the program to support Unicode-based fonts in documents.

Fonts supplied

We supply our own font for mathematics, called tciuni. In the Control Panel Fonts dialog box, you see four files: tciuni, tciuni Bold, tciuni Italic, and tciuni Bold Italic.

New Times packages

Version 3.0 has two new Times font packages: Times and Mathtime. Both packages yield ligatures and improved kerning in Times text when you typeset your document. The Mathtime font package also includes mathematics set in Times, so your document can use Times throughout rather than a combination of font families. Both fonts use the widely accepted PostScript New Font Selection Scheme (PSNFSS) for LaTeX. In addition to having a better appearance, the resulting .dvi files are more portable than those produced in Version 2.5.

Typesetting specifications developed with the Style Editor use the new fonts, and benefit from the improved kerning, ligatures and portability of .dvi files.

Input encoding

Input encoding has been added to Version 3.0 as an enhancement for users of non-US versions of Windows 95. If you use one of those systems, you can now create text files that use symbols and characters in the range 128--255. The meaning of characters in this range differs for each operating system. When you read and write documents using a non-US Windows 95 system, your documents are encoded correctly for the operating system in use, provided you select the appropriate input encoding for the language.

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File Features

File New and File Style

The File New and File Style dialog boxes are new. Unlike its counterpart in Version 2.5, the File New dialog box is unrelated to File Style in any way—it simply provides a way of creating a new document from a predefined shell.

Creating new categories and entries in the File New dialog box is easy. To create a new category, you create a new subdirectory of the swp30\Shells directory. The subdirectory name appears as a new category in the File New dialog box as soon as you add at least one shell file to it.

To create a new shell entry for any category

Save a file to the corresponding subdirectory of the Shells directory, making sure to give it the .shl extension. The file name (without the .shl extension) appears as a new entry in the category corresponding to the subdirectory.

To change an existing shell file

Use File/Open to open the shell (remember to list *.shl files), make your changes, and choose File/Save.

View Settings and View Percent retained in document

You can use the File Document Info Save Options dialog box to save View settings or View percentage with your document. If you choose to save the settings, the values are updated and saved with the document whenever you change the View settings and subsequently save the document. Use this feature to force the View settings for documents that you will be changing to read-only, or for shells that you want to have appear with specified settings.

New Save Options Page in Document Info dialog box

The options to save additional document information with the document now appear on a separate Save Options page of the Document Info dialog box.

Tools User Setup settings for state restoration

The General panel of the Tools User Setup dialog box has a group entitled State Restoration. This group has checkboxes for

• Save State Information

• Save Document Information

• Save View Information

These settings apply to read-only documents, not to read/write documents. When you have state saving enabled, the next time you start the program, the settings will take effect and the program will return to the position in the last read-only document that you had open.

New database engine

We have upgraded to the latest version of CIndex II for our document database management. In particular, loading quick-load documents over a network is significantly faster.

Read-only .tex documents

When a document is read-only (that is, it is opened in browse mode), you cannot make changes, and hypertext links and popup notes operate with a single mouse click.

In version 2.5, a document is read-only if the quick-load file is read-only. In Version 3.0 and future versions of all of our products, this read-only behavior has been extended to .tex files that have the read-only attribute set. This means that you don't have to create a quick load file to get the desired behavior. We made this change because small .tex files load quickly, so if you're creating a large collection of small documents, there is no need to create quick load files for each of them. If some of the documents are large, you can selectively create quick load files to reduce the amount of time the program takes to load the document.

Find in read-only documents

You can use the Find feature to locate information in read-only documents.

Find descends into hypertext links

You can use the Find feature to locate items in the on-screen text of hypertext links. This feature is essential for creating searchable indexes, such as the Index to General Information or the Index to Computing Techniques, in which the items are all hypertext links to the main text.

Calculator filters

Version 3.0 includes import filters for Casio, Hewlett Packard, and Texas Instruments graphing calculators. The filters import .txt files. Use File/Import Contents and select the appropriate filter.

Wrap (*.rap) option for File/Save As and File/Open

The document manager, a separate program provided with Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, is included with Version 3.0. It creates self sufficient wrap files containing not only the document but also any associated files, such as graphics, that are required. It is called directly from the File/Open and File/Save As dialog boxes.

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Operating system registry

Version 3.0 uses the system registry instead of an .ini file. When you first start the program after installation, the registry entries are constructed in a default state. If you have problems starting the program at some later time, you can delete the entire registry entry for the program, then try starting again.

To delete the Scientific WorkPlace registry entries:

1. Make sure that the program is not running.

2. Start the registry editor.

3. Choose the HKEY_CURRENT_USER window.

4. Choose Software

5. Choose TCI Software Research

6. Select the entry for Scientific WorkPlace or Scientific Word (e.g. C//swp30/SWP-PRO.ini).

7. Press the Delete key and OK the warning message.

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Performance improvements

Document loading, display, and scrolling are all faster in Version 3.0. Improvements have been made to the speed of table and matrix editing.

Editing and the interface

Default action for Spacebar, Enter, and Tab keys

The default action for the spacebar, Enter, and Tab keys has been set to enter additional space instead of opening a dialog box. This means that pressing the spacebar repeatedly enters a series of spaces, pressing Enter repeatedly inserts a series of blank lines, and pressing the Tab key enters an Em-space.

"Empty" brackets

The empty bracket, which appears as a gray dotted line in Version 2.5, appears as a red dotted line in Version 3.0. This line does not display if you have the View Helper Lines setting off. This makes piecewise defined functions and other case statements appear correctly on the screen and in print.

Automatic list numbering

Numbered lists are automatically numbered on the screen. Although not required in our earlier products in which TeX does the printing, this feature is essential for direct printing. You can set the numbering style for each level, and the bullet type, but only by using an ASCII\ editor to change the .cst file.

Mouse pointer status

When the mouse pointer passes over a hypertext link, an external program call, or a graphic, the Status area gives information about the object.

Resources

We want to supply as many samples and examples as possible to illustrate the many uses of our software in teaching and other settings. The Examples directory provided with the system contains a small collection of samples.

In addition, two documentation files for TrueTeX are part of Version 3.0: a readme file and a file containing samples of text and mathematics using the Times style.

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Online tests

Input objects

Version 3.0 provides equivalents of these HTML input objects: radio buttons, check boxes, images, submit and hidden. Later versions will include text and password. Using these items in Scientific WorkPlace, you can construct online multiple-choice tests.

Exam Builder

A new version of the Exam Builder, called exambld2.exe, is installed in the same directory as Scientific WorkPlace. The installation program does not provide an icon for this program. You can create your own icon for developing tests, or you can start the program directly from a DOS prompt.

The source file format for exambld2 is significantly different from that used in the Exam\ Builder provided with version 2.5 of Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word. The new format uses headings as much as possible to keep the format as close to standard LaTeX as possible.

The software includes several special commands for generating random numbers. The command , where is a positive integer, picks a random number in the range . The command , where and are integers, picks a number at random in the range . The command , where is a set of integers, picks a number at random from the set. The selection and substitution are done by Maple when the generated exam is loaded. For example, mathematical statements such as placed in Setup sections are converted to Maple definitions that are made automatically when the test is loaded, and are invisible to the user.

You can use this facility to generate plots for questions. For example, if you enter in a Setup section and then plot in the Statement section, you can set the range and other plot parameters (the plot will appear as a straight line in the source document), and the generated test will display the appropriate plot. Once you have plotted , you can delete the symbol from the statement. In the Statement section of the question, you can enter formula objects. For example, if the Setup section contains the definition then you provide a formula object that evaluates in the question Statement section to display the number chosen for .. Insert formulas with the Insert Field Formula dialog box.

These features provide a way to program algorithmically generated tests. Our goal is to make the programming of these tests very straightforward. The full power of Scientific WorkPlace's Maple Definition facility can be used in the Setup sections.

The test generation system relies heavily on the fact that each document now has a separate Maple environment, the new formula objects, and the new default automatic loading of definitions when documents are opened.

You can develop quizzes conveniently as follows.

1. Create the source document and leave it open.

2. Start Exam Builder and compile a test from the source document. Leave Exam Builder open.

3. Open the generated test.

4. Make changes to the source document, save it, click Compile in Exam Builder, then click on the open result document in Scientific WorkPlace. You'll be prompted to reload the document. When the document reloads, you see the newly generated version. Repeat as often as necessary.

The concept of multiple question variants has been carried over from the previous exam builder, so that you can have question variants selected at random as before.

Exambld2 also provides a choice for generating printed versions of tests.

Architecture

To take a test, you open a file with the extension .qiz. Scientific WorkPlace assumes that this is a source file and runs exambld2 with this file as input, generating a temporary read-only .tex file containing the resulting test and opening the .tex file. The correct answers to the problems are provided in encrypted form in a hidden input field. When the student clicks the button to grade the quiz, a set of name-value pairs is generated from the input objects. This data is passed to a dynamic link library called tcicgi.dll. This acts like an Internet server, passing the data on to a cgi (Common Gateway Interface) program and retrieving the result from that program. You specify the cgi program name in the source file for your test. This program is the grading program. It receives the name-value pairs and constructs a document that is displayed as the result. It uses the encrypted hidden field value to grade the test.

The grading program could also be used to store or transmit the test responses. Since the architecture models that of cgi, it is very flexible.

We have taken "real" cgi programs and modified them to work with this system. The only change that is needed is to generate a LaTeX document as the result, in place of an HTML document.

You're free to replace either the Exam Builder, or the cgi grading program, with your own creations. For example, you could use text input fields for free form responses and then develop your own program for grading those responses. You could develop a much richer language for generating the Maple definitions and for the problem statements.

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Technical information for Version 3.0

TrueTeX documentation files

Two documentation files for TrueTeX are part of Version 3.0: a readme file and a file containing samples of text and mathematics using the Times style.

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Swap files

We recommend that you have at least 60 MB of RAM in a permanent Windows swap file.

To examine the current virtual memory setting for your Windows 95 installation:

1. From the Start menu, choose Settings and then choose Control Panel.

2. Choose System and then choose the Performance tab.

3. Choose the Virtual Memory button in the lower-right corner and examine the virtual memory settings.

4. If the minimum setting is less than 60 MB, check Let me specify my own virtual memory settings.

5. Change the minimum setting to 60 MB and set a maximum setting greater than 60 MB.

6. Choose OK.

7. When the system asks if you want to confirm the virtual memory setting, choose Yes.

8. Confirm your settings, then choose Close.

The system will reboot.

To examine the current virtual memory setting for your Windows NT installation:

1. From the Windows Start menu, choose Settings and then choose Control Panel.

2. Choose System.

3. Choose Performance and examine the virtual memory settings.

4. If the minimum setting is less than 60 MB, choose Change.

5. Specify a minimum initial size of 60 MB and a maximum setting greater than 60 MB.

6. Choose Set.

7. Choose OK to close the dialog box.

8. Choose OK to close the System Properties dialog box.

9. Close the Control Panel.

10. When the system asks if you want to restart your computer, choose Yes.

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Numbering theorems

Earlier versions of the program provided several options for theorem numbering schemes. These schemes, called thmsa, thmsb, etc., consisted of a series of newtheorem statements; they were stored in separate files. To use a different numbering scheme, you modified the typesetting specifications to include the scheme option you wanted. Your document wasn't changed.

This method has worked well up to now, but causes some difficulties with the new portable LaTeX output filter, because the LaTeX standard is to place all newtheorem statements in the document, rather than in a separate style file. For this reason, documents that use one of the thmsx theorem numbering options don't lend themselves to portability.

In earlier versions of the program, newtheorem statements were recognized when they were contained in a document or when they appeared in the [FILTERS] section of a .cst file. In either case, the filter instructed the program to place the environment defined in the newtheorem statement in the leftmost tag popup list (Item Tags) and to interpret and display the environment correctly. If the same environment was defined in both places, the program commented out the newtheorem statement in the document. This behavior, which prevented TeX errors resulting from two definitions of the same newtheorem, is unchanged in Version 3.0.

To work towards greater portability of your documents, we've made these changes in Version 3.0:

• All newtheorem statements have been removed from .cst files, unless they are defined in some LaTeX .cls, clo or .sty file.

• Newtheorem statements have been placed in all shell files.

• The input filter has been changed to recognize automatically the theorem set defined in thmsa, thmsb, etc. whenever one of those options is detected in a file.

These changes have several consequences. First, if you want to change the theorem numbering scheme in your document, you must now edit the document preamble to add or modify the appropriate newtheorem statements. Please refer to a TeX manual for more information about newtheorem statements.

Second, some compatibility problems can occur. Although documents created with Version 2.5 can be read correctly in Version 3.0, and vice versa, you may experience problems if you open a Version 3.0 document in Version 2.5, make a change and save the document, and then open the document again in Version 3.0, any theorem environments will appear as gray boxes. This occurs because the presence of the newtheorem statements in the [FILTERS] section of Version 2.5 files causes Version 2.5 to comment out the in-file definitions that come from the Version 3.0 shell file.

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Multilingual support

When you install the program, you have a choice of installing multilingual LaTeX support or standard LaTeX support.

Installing standard LaTeX support loads these elements:

• The cm (Computer Modern) fonts.

• latex.fmt, a LaTeX format file. The format file—a special binary file that contains the LaTeX macro set precompiled for rapid loading—transforms the TeX formatter into a LaTeX formatter at run time.

This option installs a very standard version of LaTeX. It is limited to U.S. English and can't be used to print certain foreign language characters. It runs a bit faster and uses fewer fonts than the multilingual support option.

Installing Multilingual support loads these elements:

• The cm (Computer Modern) fonts.

• latex.fmt, the LaTeX format file.

• The TeX DC fonts, text-only fonts that add extra characters for non-English use.

• latex\_ml.fmt, a format file that is precompiled for the DC fonts and that contains a new non-English hyphenation pattern set that supports German, French and Dutch. To customize for a particular language, especially one that is not already supported in latex\_ml.fmt, create a new format file that includes the hyphenation patterns of your choice.

Important We recommend that you always choose multilingual support when you install.

If you need the cm/latex.fmt combination at a later time, you can choose it from the Format Settings tab sheet in the Expert Settings dialog box, available from the Typeset menu. The settings for the TrueTeX formatter are maintained separately from the settings for Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace. If you use the TrueTeX formatter independently of Scientific WorkPlace or Scientific Word, you must also make separate settings for the formatter.

To change to the cm/latex.fmt combination for Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace

1. From the Typeset menu, choose Expert Settings.

2. Choose the Format Settings tab.

3. In the box labeled Select a formatter, choose latex.fmt.

4. Choose OK.

To choose the cm/latex.fmt combination for the TrueTeX formatter

1. Click on your desktop or, from the Windows Start menu, choose Programs and then choose Scientific WorkPlace 3.0 or Scientific Word 3.0.

2. Click the Preload= menu.

3. In the Format File box of the Select Preloaded Format File dialog, enter latex.fmt.

Using SWP with Windows 95 Multilanguage Support

Windows 95 Multilanguage Support is entirely different from the Multilingual Support installation option described above.

Windows 95 Multilanguage Support provides larger Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New fonts. These fonts contain the ligatures needed for the times package. Because the program accommodates these fonts in different ways, it doesn't need this support. However, the TrueTeX previewer \QTR{it}{does }need the support, because it uses Unicode exclusively.

In other words, if you are a Windows 95 user and you want to use the times and mathtime packages and also want to be able to preview your typeset document, you must have Windows 95 Multilanguage Support. Without it, ligatures won't appear properly when you preview or print. For example, words like first, flow, and difficult will be missing the it fi, fl, and ffi, respectively.

The installation program now checks the size of the times.ttf font when you install. If you have the small version of this font, you'll receive a warning near the end of the installation.

If you install Windows 95 Multilanguage support, then uninstall it, the larger fonts will still be present. You can save some space by first installing, then uninstalling, Multilanguage support.

Technical support

In addition to this online Help system, you can get technical support from our Web-based Technical Support forum.

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Revised 06/26/02, 09/04/03, 07/20/04

This document was created with Scientific WorkPlace.