Publicon in the News
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"Publicon is easy to use, but it is also a highly structured
authoring environment. It can not only output BioMed Central's native
article XML format, but also embed mathematical equations as 'islands'
of semantically-rich MathML. This structured mathematical information
is then preserved throughout the publication process, from the
author's computer right through to the reader's desktop with no
intermediate unstructured version along the way that might cause
information to be lost."
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Matthew J. Cockerill, BMC Bioinformatics
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"Wolfram Research and BioMed Central... announced a partnership to
streamline Open Access publishing. Using... Publicon software,
authors gain the unique advantage of being able to submit properly
structured documents ready for direct publication by BioMed Central,
the leading Open Access publisher."
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Wolfram Research Press Release
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"Of particular use to chemists are the Chemistry Templates....
"The mathematical typesetting is easy to use, and since it is built
directly into the program, there is no need to open a separate one, such as
the Equation Editor or MathType in Microsoft Word....
"Overall, this software is very useful in preparing technical documents.
The interface is easy to learn and use, and the stacked cell format provides
organizational structure and quick formatting options. The templates provide
a fast and easy means to include equations, mathematical expressions, and
figures in a document."
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Chris Pursell and Susan Oxley,
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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"For Mathematica users, Publicon would be a natural word
processor for all documents for which these users would have otherwise
used TeX or LaTeX. But even non-Mathematica users will
find Publicon quite intuitive, and you get the typesetting
power of TeX/LaTeX with the GUI of Publicon."
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ManMohan S. Sodhi, OR/MS Today
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"'I maintain more than 1,000 pages of text in the form of two fully
developed books.... There are two more, one well-developed and one I
haven't created more than five chapters of,' says Beckman [Michelle
Beckman, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State
University]. Her testing of Publicon was comprehensive, she
says. 'I set out to make it fail.'
"But not only did it not fail, Beckman raves about its
features. 'Publicon is an almost flawless base design and
structure. It will eliminate my having to correct others' poor
setup. Scientists are scientists--they don't want to know every
intricacy of the tool they use to write research results,' she says."
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Noelle Skodzinski, BookTech Magazine
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"Wolfram Inc.'s Publicon 1.0 offers electronic wordsmiths a
novel environment for creating and sharing complex documents and for
building customized documentation tools....
"In eWEEK Labs' tests, Publicon proved a promising alternative
for those who are poorly served by conventional text editors, desktop
publishing applications or cryptic typesetting languages. Writing
in Publicon combines the interactive immediacy of a WYSIWYG
tool, the precisely formatted formulas and graphics of a technical
authoring system, and some of the data-handling and cross-referencing
capabilities a user might otherwise have to seek in a report writer or
document management product....
"...Technical professionals will relish Publicon's tools for
creating and searching mathematical and chemical formula
notations. Academics, lawyers, researchers and others will benefit
from its ease of including citations, cross-references and other
complex document elements."
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Peter Coffee, eWEEK Magazine
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"...[Publicon] caters for even the most esoteric of
mathematical, physical, and chemical notation. The Typesetting tool
palette, which contains all these delights, helpfully reveals
shortcuts and the meaning of each symbol/character.... Tables are well
supported, allowing you to paste graphics into their cells, one of the
more exotic features of FrameMaker....
"...Printing to even non-PostScript printers is very quick but delivers
high-quality results...."
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Howard Oakley, MacUser
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"A scientist's QuarkXPress....
"...FrameMaker's support for symbols is somewhat limited. Word is even
worse. It is clearly not designed to be used as a scientific editing
tool. Formula and symbols support is thin, and there's no way to put
your design really 'right.' Enter Wolfram Research's Publicon....
"It is no surprise that Publicon is every way as powerful
as Mathematica when it comes to the support the program offers
for functions, formulas, equations, and other mathematical and
scientific notations....
"The most impressive feature in my opinion is the support an author
gets for entering his own details, end notes and citations....
"Publicon is not everyone's editor, but to scientific
publishers, I expect it to become an industry standard. Its power and
feature-richness far exceed that of FrameMaker's in the area of
formulas and mathematical and other symbologies.... And the
cross-publishing features make it an easy choice for anyone having to
publish simultaneously to paper, the web, and the screen during
presentations."
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Erik Vlietinck, IT-Enquirer
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