On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:08:40AM -0600, Arkajyoti Misra wrote: > > > > 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 For plotting I find gnuplot that comes with fedora pretty good for data plotting in 2 and 3-dimensions. -- ======================================================================= One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
