Scientific Workplace - New Features in 4.0

Version 4.0 brings even more capabilities and features to the workplace. The following list of features reflect changes and improvements over Version 3.5.

Productivity

• Configure the Symbol Cache toolbar and the expanded symbol panels. Customize the Symbol Cache toolbar by removing the symbols you don't need and adding any symbols you want from the expanded symbol panels. Customize the symbol panels by removing the symbols that you don't use. Revert easily to the original configuration of the cache and the panels. A brief, mouse-activated tooltip gives the name of each toolbar button and panel symbol.
• Work more easily with new editing features. Use the new Editing toolbar and the expanded Typeset toolbar to enter, edit, and produce your documents even more easily. New buttons speed access to common text tags, Tag Appearance settings, find and replace operations, spacing commands, picture imports, User Setup defaults, and, for typesetting, front matter and LaTeX document class and package options. Version 4.0 adds new commands to the Tools menu and to the features available from the Tools menu to simplify exporting documents; typesetting; and working with the Exam Builder, Style Editor, and Document Manager. The program also has improved editing operations for tables and matrices.
• Magnify your printed document. Set the zoom factor used when you print without typesetting. The zoom factor used for printing is independent of the zoom factor used in the document window, which simplifies the creation of overhead transparencies for meetings and classroom use.
• Work faster with enhanced keyboard shortcuts. Use new keyboard shortcuts for standard document operations. Version 4.0 adds shortcuts for opening files (Ctrl+o), finding (Ctrl+q), replacing (Ctrl+w), printing without LaTeX (Ctrl+p), deleting words (Ctrl+Backspace or Ctrl+Delete), and inserting various horizontal spaces.
• Change the style more easily. Instead of working in an ASCII editor, use the greatly expanded Tag Appearance dialog box to change the appearance of your document when you display it on the screen or produce it without typesetting. In Version 4.0 you can modify all style properties of all tags available for the document shell, including default and front matter tags. You can specify which properties are inherited from the surrounding text and which use the style default values. You can also clone new tags. You can control the number of heading levels displayed in the Navigate toolbar, which significantly increases its usefulness as an online table of contents for your document. The style modifications don't affect the typeset appearance of your document.

Typesetting

• Use new typesetting documentation. Version 4.0 of Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word includes significant new documentation for typesetting. Typesetting Documents in Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word provides information about how to tailor document shells to achieve the typeset document appearance you require.
• Examine sample documents created with Version 4.0 shells. View images of sample documents for each shell in A Gallery of Document Shells for Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, provided on the program CD. Use the documentation to choose document shells appropriately.
• Omega/Lambda. Version 4.0 of Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, in combination with TrueTeX, now supports international typesetting with the Lambda system. Use this powerful combination to produce typeset documents in Japanese.
• Work with an updated version of TrueTeX and associated TeX tools. With Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Word, use a significantly upgraded version of TrueTeX that supports the newest versions of TeX, Omega, BibTeX, MakeIndex, and other TeX tools. Version 4.0 includes the latest version of LaTeX and AMS macros.

Compatibility

• Export your documents to HTML. Create an accurate HTML version of your document using the new HTML output filter. The HTML filter provides a way to make representations of mathematics available on various platforms over the Internet and also in applications that can read HTML files. The filter saves the screen format to a Cascading Style Sheet (.css) file and exports mathematics as graphic images. You can customize HTML exports.
• Export mathematics as MathML. When you export HTML files, output your mathematics as MathML as well as graphics. Note that not all HTML browsers support MathML.
• Copy selections more accurately to other applications. Preserve the appearance of information in your document when you use the enhanced copy operation to copy selections to other applications. The copy operation writes your selection to the clipboard using a filtered Unicode format as well as the program's internal format used previously. The new format is more easily recognized by other applications.
• Tailor graphics copied or exported from your document. In Version 4.0, you can set the defaults for the appearance of selected information that you want to copy or export as graphics. Independent of the display settings for your document, you can set export and copy defaults for the View settings (including the zoom factor), the page and paragraph background, and the appearance of gray boxes.
• Open .rtf documents with greater accuracy. Use the new rtf2latex2e converter when you open .rtf documents. The new converter correctly converts many more documents than the previous converter.

Computation

• Choose your computational engine. Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook are provided with two computational engines: MuPAD 2.0® and Maple V Release 5.1®. Choose the computational engine you prefer.
• Use enhanced MuPAD capabilities. In Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook, use the standard version of MuPAD 2.0. Version 4.0 provides many new MuPAD features, which now closely match those available in Maple.
• Work with enhanced computational tools. In Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook, use the new Rewrite and Transforms menus, several new Vector Calculus commands, new Solve options, and more math names for computational capabilities.
• Use an improved Exam Builder. Use the new Exam toolbar to open the Exam Builder and view .qiz files. In addition, save the Exam Builder database in a format that can be opened in Microsoft Excel. Version 4.0 includes several new debugging aids. Network installations have been simplified
  
  

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