ScientificAssistant is built around and requires FrontBase, a relational database management system developed by FrontBase, Inc. and LaTeX, a high-quality typesetting system developed by Leslie Lamport. Both packages are avaiable from www.advanced-science.com and must be installed in order to run ScientificAssistant.

Trial keys allowing to test ScientificAssistant for a limited period of time are available for free from www.advanced-science.com.

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After downloading FrontBase doubleclick on the disk image. A new finder window appears. Doubleclick on the *.pkg file. This starts Installer.app and opens the package. Follow the instructions in the installer application.

After downloading the package doubleclick on the disk image. Start TeXGInstaller and follow the given instructions.

In order to create a new user account enter the username in the textfield below the tableview and click on New User. A corresponding entry is added in the tableview. Delete a user by selecting it in the tableview and clicking on Delete User.

The line for a first level item must start with either a bullet or a minus sign followed by a space followed by the item text. Use bullets if you want to create a bullet list. Use minus signs if you want to create a numbered list. The minus signs are automatically replaced with numbers when applying the list attribute so do not enter numbers yourself. Do not insert spaces or tabs in front of the bullets or minus signs unless you want to create a sublist. A preceeding space indicates a deeper level.

Open any document and enter the selected text in the document shown below. Insert no spaces in front of the bullets (first level items) and exactly one space in front of the minus signs (second level items). Then select the source text for the list creation

These attributes have effect while generating LaTeX only. The placement options are only recommendations for the LaTeX engine. Even if you choose Here for the placement and check Force, LaTeX might still place your figure elsewhere in order to avoid empty pages and suboptimal page breaks. However, LaTeX can be forced to place the figure where it appears in the ScientificAssistant document with the placement option H (uppercase letter). This placement option is set by default when you drag an image onto your document. You might want to experiment with these options if you are not satisfied with the resulting PDF. The figure options let you specify the size of the figure in the printout. By default the figure option scale=0.5 is set. You can remove a selected figure option with Command-D. You add figure options by making a selection in the popup below the figure options tableview and entering a corresponding value in the value column.

Movies might be handled differently. If you chose Movie Viewer on the Miscellaneous page of the preferences panel movies are not represented by an icon but by a movie player that allows to play movies directly from within the document.

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Then triple click on it to select the whole line and choose File - Theorem from the menu. This adds the theorem attribute to the selected range. The construct is automatically numbered and formatted as follows.

Satz 7.1 (Bolzano-Weierstrass) Each limited set of real numbers owns a konvergent...

Such constructs can be trageted by links. Here is an example. According to , each limited set is suitable for our purpose.

You can use the cursor keys to navigate within formulas. In order to leave formula mode and continue editing text press the right or left cursor key until the formula is left and the insertion marker appears again.

Don't number formulas yourself, they are numbered automatically. Select a formula by moving the cursor to the formula until it is selected. Then choose File - Formula - Number. A label with a unique formula number appears automatically. Make sure to have no spaces nor tabs on either side of a formula if you want it to be centered and labeled automatically.

Create a new formula by choosing File - Formula - Insert. Then type V, =, Ctrl-i i, c, o, s, Ctrl-g, a, r, Ctrl-h, 3, press the right cursor key until you are in the differential field and type r. This creates the following formula.

In formula mode greek characters can be entered by pressing Ctrl-g for selecting the greek character table and then after releasing all keys a for , b for , c for ,... Functions (sind, cos,...) are automatically recognized and formatted accordingly.

Formulas like can be referenced. In order to create a formula reference place the cursor where you want the reference to appear and choose File - Mark Source. The keyword MARK appears. Then click on the formula you wnat to create a link to and choose File - Create Link. The formula link is automatically numbered accordingly.

Please note, that the formula feature of ScientificAssistant isn't completed yet and of very limited use so far. We have included it in this release just to give you an idea of what will come. Future versions will come with a more complete equation-editor and also offer palettes.

Doubleclick on the icon titled My first book in the bookmark view in order to open the book if it has been closed in the meanwhile. Then drag My first document from the tableview of the session window to the book window and drop it just below Introduction. The book window looks as follows now.

If you would like documents to be scaled by default, go to the Miscellaneous page of the preferences panel and make your selection in the Document Presentation box.

When it comes to printing, ScientificAssistant makes use of the high-quality typesetting capabilities of LaTeX. ScientificAssistant automatically generates and compiles LaTeX code in the background. This allows ScientificAssistant users to produce professional looking printouts without having to know or learn a cryptic typesetting language.

If the Compile LaTeX switch is selected the generated LaTeX code is written into a temporary directory (/tmp/src) followed by the execution of the selected filter. A filter is a script usually containing statements for compiling the generated LaTeX code and converting it into any desired format (PS, PDF,...). However, this script can contain arbitrary additional statements e.g. for opening the resulting PDF file in a viewer or sending the generated PS file to a PostScript printer.

If you are rather interested in the generated LaTeX code than in the compiled PDF or PostScript deselect the Compile LaTeX switch. You are asked for a destination directory for the generated files (tex, bib, pics,...) as soon as you start the process.

Doubleclicking on a tex file in finder automatically starts ScientificAssistant if it has been set as the default application for tex files. You can't import tex files into ScientificAssistant yet but you can use ScientificAssistant to quickly compile a tex file in place.

A document compiled with the bibliography style set to Plain Numbers.

A document compiled with the bibliography style set to Plain Author-Year.

Select a document class by clicking on the document class popup button on the Create LaTeX panel. Note the slider at the top of the textview below the switch matrix. Drag this slider down. The textview above the slider shows the preamble text of the selected document class.

If you perform modifications to the preamble on the Create LaTeX panel these changes have effect for the current session only and get lost as soon as you close the Create LaTeX panel. As mentioned you can modify or add document classes on the Document Classes page of preferences panel. However, you can also attach a customized preamble to any document or book. Open the document or book you want to attach a customized preamble to and select the LaTeX preamble page on the document inspector.

\#!/bin/csh
setenv PATH /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:\$PATH
pdflatex \$1
bibtex \$1
pdflatex \$1
pdflatex \$1
open \$1.pdf

The second line adds the bin directory of the LaTeX distribution to the PATH environment variable. If you do not use the teTeX distribution supplied by Advanced Science Corporation make sure this path points to the correct directory. Otherwise generating LaTeX might fail. Check the paths in the files generatePostScript, generatePDF, generatePostScriptWithIndex, generatePDFWithIndex and convertEPSScript. If you change these files make sure they remain executable. You might have to enter ''chmod u+x,g+x,o+x generateXXX'' on the command line to set the execute flag.

When called by ScientificAssistant the above script is passed a single parameter, the name of the generated tex file that is to be compiled. So the third line of the script runs the tex file through pdflatex. After this first compilation we have to run bibtex and then pdflatex twice again to get the PDF completed with all references. The script finally opens the resulting PDF file in the default application (Preview.app,...).

The script generatePostScript generates a PostScript file instead. Since PostScript cannot be viewed on MacOSX this script has no open statement. Attach the generated PostScript file to an email, manually send it to a PostScript printer or do whatever you like.

Filters are configured on the Filter page of the preferences panel. The scripts coming with ScientificAssistant are automatically available on the Create LaTeX panel. However, you can also add your own scripts to customize the print process and make it meet your individual requirements.

\#!/bin/csh
setenv PATH /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:\$PATH
latex \$1
bibtex \$1
latex \$1
latex \$1
dvips \$1 -o
lpr -P HP \$1.ps

Create a new ASCII file with pico on the command line or with TextEdit.app and enter (copy/paste) the statements above. We assume that a print queue HP exists on localhost. Save the script as e.g. generatePSAndPrint and make it executable (chmod u+x,g+x,o+x createPSAndPrint). Then click on the Add button on the Filter page of the preferences panel and change the name from Untitled to Generate PostScript and print or whatever you like. Click on the Set button and select your script. The selected script must be executable, otherwise it is rejected. Select PostScript in the radio matrix below the tableview. This causes ScientificAssistant to generate eps for all figures (TIFF, GIF,..) instead of PDF. If your script uses pdflatex to generate pdf select PDF instead.

@book\{1,
author = \{C. Date and Hugh Darween\},
title = \{A guide to THE SQL STANDARD\},
year = \{2000\},
publisher = \{Addison \texttt{\symbol{92}}\& Wesley\}
\}
@book\{2,
author = \{Robert Hermann Eisberg and Robert Resnick\},
title = \{Quantum Physics of atoms and particles\},
year = \{1985\},
publisher = \{John Wiley \texttt{\symbol{92}}\& Sons\}
\}
@book\{3,
author = \{The Unicode Consortium\},
title = \{The Unicode Standard\},
year = \{1999\},
publisher = \{Addison \texttt{\symbol{92}}\& Wesley\}
\}

When started ScientificAssistant determines the name of the current host. When opening the dialog for creating or monitoring databases the hostname field is set to this host by default. The hostname can be set by manually editing /etc/hostconfig. Enter sudo pico /etc/hostconfig into a terminal session - enter the administrator password if asked for - and make sure the entry for the hostname is correct.