> > Office: Openoffice.org. Write and calc are perfect alternatives to word and > excel. Abiword always crashes abnormally. I could not try koffice yet. I use > kile for latex. I use lyx for all my document processing needs. It is based on Latex but works in WYSIWYG mode. Exceptional for writing papers which I guess should appeal to professors and students alike. I have not found any other document processor which comes even close. > Origin: this is a perfect data plotting tool. Non of excell like tools > (gnumeric, ooo calc) can be used as an alternative to this tool. Maybe grace > should be tried, but I could not find binaries for that. And could not find > time to compile it. Any comment? > I have been using xmgrace for several years. It does everything except 3-d plotting. It is easy yo use and easy to compile from the tarball. For 3-d plotting I use gnuplot which of course does not have a nice GUI but is very powerful. Arko
