Scientific Author is a visual LaTeX editor for mathematicians, scientists and engineers, supporting industry standards like LaTeX 2e. It is a visual document editor, which exports LaTeX for rendering by tools such as MiKTeX. Scientific Author also supports editing of mathematical notation through tool palettes and templates. LaTeX symbols are also supported, including American Mathematical Society symbols. It also enables easy editing of tables, footnotes, and margin notes.

The author is Danilo Stélio Manhiça.