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Create a publication quality document in Mathematica?

Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: mdkimzey Kimzey
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Literate Mathematical notebooks with Sectional organization and textual discussion exchanged between Mathematica users are the best technical medium of communication there is - by several orders of magnitude - easily. This is because of their active and dynamic capabilities. They also have a higher integrity because misprints or errors that don't compute are less likely to get into a notebook.

Notebooks can be exchanged over the web. There is no need for the drudgework of converting a superior document to a much inferior document just to appease antiquated practices and technology.

CDF documents are not that wonderful either. The reader and the writer should be on an equal footing.

Some day it will come about!

POSTED BY: David Annetts
POSTED BY: mdkimzey Kimzey

Just a word from an Executive Editor for a journal published by Elsevier (Annals of Nuclear Energy). My definite goal is to have Elsevier, or at least my journal, to accept submissions written as notebooks, but the inertia against such changes at a large company of that size is practically infinite. I have already started a discussion on that but there is very little, if any, progress so far, except that the people higher up in the management know about the existence of such a request.

POSTED BY: Imre Pazsit

Possible: probably. Style-sheets are quite powerful but tricky to edit. I would not recommend it. Learn LaTeX (or, god forbid, use Word) and include graphics (plots and images et cetera) that you created in Mathematica. I don't think any journal will accept an NB file actually. Conversion to PDF can be done, but not editable, which is sometimes required. Moreover, page-ends are not always chosen in a nice way.

POSTED BY: Sander Huisman
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