November 2015

From: Dr Christopher Mabb, Scientific Word Ltd.
To: Our Scientific Word/WorkPlace/Notebook Technical Typesetting list

1. Version 6.0.8:    Changes for v6.0.8 include:
   
   • Fixed a problem resizing plots
   • Fixed a problem where deleting a sub or super script in a display moves the maths out of the display
   • Fixed a problem where an automatic substitution sometimes didn't erase the original string
   • Improved pretty printing of source view
   • Fixed a problem that prevented entering a description list item. Now, press right arrow after entering the label
   • Improve the behaviour of the cursor in displays
   • When exporting to web and including MathJax, use canonical URL
   • When using OS X, modifications to account for changed locations of MSITeX.bash and pdflatex.bash
   • Fix a problem that prevented changing the default shell
   • When using OS X, there has been a problem with entering macros using ctrl+space. It should be cmd+space, but that keyboard shortcut defaults to Spotlight, the OS X system search. Many utilities like Alfred and Launchbar will use ctrl+space. Up until now ctrl+space has been used, but that is frequently already taken so the macro feature is unavailable. Now, the following keyboard shortcuts will work if they are available:
     • ctrl+space
     • ctrl+alt+space
     • ctrl+alt+cmd+space
     • shift+ctrl+alt+cmd+space
     All the modifier keys are near each other, so these combinations are actually accessible. When using OS X, try ctrl+space and if that doesn't work, go down this list until you find something that does. The escape key exits the macro tool.
   • For SW and SWP, the LaTeX Passes dialog will automatically close on completion of the LaTeX compile, automatically opening the PDF typeset results
   • For SW and SWP, PDF Preview or PDF Print copies the PDF file from the working directory to the directory containing the .sci document, with the .pdf file extension
   • Fixed a problem with Version 6.0.7 where the Mackichan web site would not appear when selected from the help menu
   • Fixed a problem when revising parts of a display caused a crash
   • A help/documentation change to clarify that the equation numbering for displays can default to left or right
   • Fix a problem when using OS X that prevented proper import of .eps and .pdf graphics
   • For SW and SWP, fixed a problem with BibTeX not being run during the LaTeX compile
   • Fixed a problem with a summation that caused a crash
   • For SW and SWP, add fontenc to the list of packages



2. Installation Instructions:    The latest versions are always available from our Download page. We recommend re-installing TeXLive and selecting Skip to create a new installation.



3. Licence files:    For Fixed licences, your licence file will be installed automatically when you Activate.
   For home use licences attached to campus-wide Site Licences, our Installation Instructions (Step 8) suggest downloading a template file license.lic from the Licence files section of our home page. If you'd rather create the licence file yourself from the Email forwarded by your Site Licence administrator, then on Windows you can use WordPad and Save the licence information, as a Text document license.lic, to the .default subfolder of c:\Users\[Name]\AppData\Roaming\SWP\Profiles\ .
   For a Mac, one of our campus-wide sites has produced some helpful instructions which we include (slightly modified) here:
   1. Copy the licence information (between the asterisks) from the Email
   2. Open up TextEdit and from the Menu Bar choose Format – Make Plain Text
   3. Paste in the licence information
   4. Choose File – Save
   5. Untick the If no extension is provided, use ".txt" tick box and save the file with the name license.lic
   6. Copy the license.lic file
   7. With SWP closed, open Finder and choose Go – Go to Folder and copy-and-paste in: ~Library/Application Support/SWP/Profiles/
   8. Open the .default folder and paste in the licence.lic file



4. Activation dialog:    The Activation dialog box, up to and including v6.0.8, does not correctly record and process the Email and phone number fields. For Fixed licences, you would not have noticed this as your licence file is installed automatically when you Activate (this relates to the item above). But for home use licences attached to campus-wide Site Licences, the resulting Email does not provide your Site Licence Administrator with the Email address to which they should forward the licence. Two possible workarounds are as follows:
   1. Include your Email address as part of the Name field
   2. Copy the computer ID from the Activation dialog, and then enter the relevant information in the web form at http://licensing.mackichan.com/Activate; this interface works correctly.
   
   We anticipate that this problem will be fixed with the next version, 6.0.9. While past performance is no guarantee of future results, the minor updates have been coming out about one every three weeks – which would take us to the first week of December for v6.0.9. No promises!