Scientific Workplace is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is LyX, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Scientific Workplace and nine of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Scientific Workplace are Apache OpenOffice Writer, TeXstudio, Texmaker and Kile.
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a GUI.
Writer, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is an open-source word processor. It supports the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office 97-2003 formats, Microsoft Office 2007...
Scientific WorkPlace is an advanced what-you-see-is-what-you-get frontend for LaTeX, which is for professional scientific publishing. OpenOffice doesn't have any such functionality.
TeXstudio is an integrated environment for writing LaTeX documents. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. Therefore TeXstudio has numerous features like syntax-highlighting, integrated viewer, reference checking and various assistants.
Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.
Kile is a user-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor by KDE. Kile gives you the ability to use all the functionality of LaTeX in a graphical interface and has interactive preview mechanisms to readily see the results of editing.
The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program (working environment) that will be available for all today’s major desktop operating systems—in particular, MS Windows (XP and Vista), typical GNU/Linux distros and other X11-based systems, and Mac OS X.
TexMaths is an addon designed to provide LaTeX support into LibreOffice. LaTeX equations can be inserted as images (SVG or PNG formats) and the LaTeX code is saved into the image attribute for further editing.
TexitEasy is a free, cross-platform and open-source latex editor. TexitEasy has all the features a modern editor can have.
LaTeXing is plugin for the popular and fast text editor Sublime Text . The plugin supports many features to write your LaTeX files without leaving the text editor or using the mouse.
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OpenOffice isn't for advanced TeX/mathematical typing