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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."


Noelle Skodzinski, BookTech Magazine (November 1, 2004)

 

"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."


Peter Coffee, eWEEK Magazine (September 6, 2004)

 

"...[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...."


Howard Oakley, MacUser (September 2004)

 

"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."


Erik Vlietinck, IT-Enquirer (September 3, 2004)