Scientific WorkPlace (SWP) Scientific Word (SW) Scientific Notebook (SN) and Scientific Viewer (SV) form a family of products for creating and reading mathematical documents. If you substitute the word ‘Mathematical’ for ‘Scientific’ in the product names you will immediately have a clearer idea about what they do. MacKichan Software may justify the names on the grounds that there are tools for converting physical units and menus of physical constants but I can’t imagine a non-mathematical scientist using the products. It’s also worth looking at the price tag before getting too hooked. I had to hunt around on the MacKichan Web site to find the current cost of SWP SW and SN as $650 $450 and $129 respectively for a single-user academic licence with discounts for bulk-purchase. SV is a free browser allowing anyone to read and print documents produced by the other products.
