Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia is a scientific wordprocessing and database-based document management system for MacOSX. It features

• scientific word processing with focus on content
• a very efficient equation editor (based on MathML content markup)
• a symbolic algebra system with automatic equation simplification
• a 2D graph module
• a simulation module
• management of documents in a relational database
• a bibliography repository
• multi user system for co-editing in a group
• LaTeX export for printing
• HTML export for WWW publishing

All documents, books and bibliography entries are stored in a relational database. This allows a whole group of scientists to efficiently retrieve and savely work on the same set of documents. Documents can arbitrarily be linked together like HTML documents in the world wide web and references established to all kinds of objects (equations, bibliography entries, section, figures,...) in the same or any other document.

Cassiopeia includes a key-stroke based equation editor that allows to enter equations directly into the document very efficiently (no extra tool or window required). Internally the equations are stored in MathML content markup. This means that the entered equations have mathematical meaning and can be processed with an integrated symbolic algebra system.

Documents are internally represented in a human readable XML format. This allows interoperability with third-party apps and potentially the easy conversion of the documents into any other documents format.

When it comes to printing Cassiopeia generates LaTeX code, the quasi standard for the publication of scientific papers and books. This LaTeX code is automatically compiled and the generated PDF opened in Preview.app.

Cassiopeia.app is a native MacOSX application and available for download now.