Scientific Word/Workplace ⇒ Scientific Word plus MikTeX

[wildwill]

Hi all:

I am writing my thesis in using TeXnicCenter and MikTeX, but my supervisor uses Scientific Word. Is there a relatively simple way for him to open, edit, and view my files?

Thanks,

Bill

[Ward]

Theoretically yes.

However, this is for mysterious reasons (entirely due to SWP) very difficult in practice. I had (finished my thesis last month) the same problem. Very basic tex-code will do, but more advanced latex-code might even cause SWP to crash entirely. The problem is the terrible LaTex compiler SWP uses by default. TCI is quite out-dated and (at least our version) does not understand LaTeX2e. It is possible to configure SWP in such a way that it uses MikTeX instead of its default TCI, but you'll end up in the usual backslash-forewardslash path-problems.

An additional problem is that SWP destroys your nice and tidy raw-tex code because it adds lots and lots of SWP-special tex commands. So... your supervisor is probably capable of editing your code with SWP, but you don't want that file back!!

[omorr]

You might suggest your supervisor to replace SWP Latex compiler (TrueTex) with MikTex. Actually, this is a preferable way of using SWP. MikTex and Yap are doing better job than SWP (from my own experience). Your supervisor just have to install MikTex and to change Typeset settings inside SWP in order SWP to use MikTex and Yap. But, unfortunatelly, even in this case SWP sometimes could not read your (more advanced) tex files, as already mentioned.