Technical Publishing Made Easy with New Wolfram Publicon Software
August 10, 2004--Wolfram Publicon, a new integrated
software solution for composing sophisticated technical documents, is now
available from Wolfram Research. Created for the growing number of
academic researchers, students, and industry professionals who need to
create or publish documents with technical content, Publicon produces
platform-independent files that can be exported to HTML, XML, LaTeX, or
custom Publicon formats.
Up to this point, technical writers have had only cumbersome means of
integrating mathematical typesetting into their
documents. Publicon seamlessly incorporates intuitive math
typesetting technology with additional templates for chemical
equations, special characters, and symbols to produce
publication-quality documents quickly and easily. Mathematical
notation from a Publicon document can be copied and pasted for
and from computation in Mathematica, the award-winning
technical computing system from Wolfram Research, allowing readers
meaningful and dynamic interaction with the text.
Formatting documents to the demands of publishers and technical societies
like the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society, and
BioMed Central is greatly simplified with this new standard for technical
publishing. Built-in palettes, templates, and style sheets simplify the
creation of documents that conform to industry-standard formats, but also
allow for complete customization to match any style.
Among its many features that streamline the publication process, Publicon
includes:
- A guided, template-driven document creation system
- A scrolling, WYSIWYG interface ideal for online presentation
- Support for the composition of structured documents matching
REVTeX, AMS-TeX, standard LaTeX, Open Access publisher BioMed Central's
XML (supported by PubMed Central), and custom Publicon formats
- HTML, XML, and LaTeX export
- Automatic conversion to and from MathML
- Math and chemistry typesetting for word-processor-like equation
composition
- Full searchability within typeset equations for any
character--including all operators, bracket varieties, and radicals
- Automated reference management for instant bibliographies
- Notes and cross-reference insertion tools
- Style sheets that control all aspects of a document's
functionality and appearance
- Spell checking with a built-in technical dictionary
- Platform-independent document creation
- A searchable help browser for quick-and-easy access to all of
Publicon's features
"You don't need to learn a new language or have any experience with
publishing to create elegant technical documents with Publicon," says
André Kuzniarek, manager of document technology at Wolfram Research. "From
implementing mathematical and scientific typesetting to structuring the
document for online publication, Publicon does it all with the click of a
few buttons. With Publicon, technical authors have a complete system in
which to write, while publishers have the guarantee of receiving documents
custom-formatted to their exacting standards."
"This is a major advance," says Matthew Cockerill, Technical Director of
Open Access publisher BioMed Central. "With Publicon it is finally
possible for scientific authors to create manuscripts in a structured way
and output them in an XML format suitable for web publication. It will
lead to faster publication times and significantly reduce the costs
involved in scientific publishing."
Publicon is available for Windows and Mac OS X and can be purchased for
download.
More information is available.
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