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microsfot to work on a tex editor
I don't understand. Out there are numerous tex editors such as winedt, led,
texmacs, scientific word, lyx, etc.... Why MS does not enter to that market and make a kicking tex ediyor for creating latex documents? All the academics are looking for a user friendly tex editor. And there is hardly a good one out there. |
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microsfot to work on a tex editor
What "market"? The overwhelming majority of what you mention ‹ plus most of
what you don't ‹ is freeware in the first place. And almost every user's preference/opinion differs. Let's assume that MS was willing to invest the necessary time & money in developing, marketing, distributing & supporting such a product... Would you be willing to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $400-$600/copy? Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 11/14/09 7:43 AM, in article , "minimus" wrote: I don't understand. Out there are numerous tex editors such as winedt, led, texmacs, scientific word, lyx, etc.... Why MS does not enter to that market and make a kicking tex ediyor for creating latex documents? All the academics are looking for a user friendly tex editor. And there is hardly a good one out there. |
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microsfot to work on a tex editor
You should be more concerned with a spellchecker.
"minimus" wrote in message ... :I don't understand. Out there are numerous tex editors such as winedt, led, : texmacs, scientific word, lyx, etc.... : Why MS does not enter to that market and make a kicking tex ediyor for : creating latex documents? : All the academics are looking for a user friendly tex editor. And there is : hardly a good one out there. : : |
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microsfot to work on a tex editor
What is the market?
Here you a Scientific word: $630.00 (http://www.mackichan.com/) Bakoma: 100 Euro (http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/purchase.php) WinEDt: $70 (http://www.winedt.com/registration.html) Word2TeX 4.1 http://www.word2tex.com/store/ ($300) TeX2Word 2.5 http://www.word2tex.com/store/ ($300) etc. Almost all scientific publishers require Latex format for the papers. For example http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/aut...authors/elsart http://www.springer.com/engineering?...175-6-784710-0 etc. You can see how many scientific journals there are in the world. http://www.sciencegateway.org/rank/index.html Google search for "Latex template" return 2,280,000 results form diffrent journals conferences etc. I was working for several universities in Europe and in the USA and in all of them scientists and students use Latex. Additionally many students have to learn Latex to get the degree. To me it doesn't look like a small market. Regards, Andrzej "CyberTaz" wrote: What "market"? The overwhelming majority of what you mention ‹ plus most of what you don't ‹ is freeware in the first place. And almost every user's preference/opinion differs. Let's assume that MS was willing to invest the necessary time & money in developing, marketing, distributing & supporting such a product... Would you be willing to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $400-$600/copy? Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 11/14/09 7:43 AM, in article , "minimus" wrote: I don't understand. Out there are numerous tex editors such as winedt, led, texmacs, scientific word, lyx, etc.... Why MS does not enter to that market and make a kicking tex ediyor for creating latex documents? All the academics are looking for a user friendly tex editor. And there is hardly a good one out there. . |
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