[ale] MS Office new version

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Latex and GnuPlot still work...

or....

You could even get much fancier than Excel 
and do all your graphics from the command line:


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Mathematica 5.0 for Sun Solaris (UltraSPARC)
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In[4]:= TeXForm[Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,2Pi}]]



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Out[4]//TeXForm=
  \Mfunction{Graphics}(\{ \{ \Mfunction{Line}(\{ \{ 2.61799\,{10}^{-7},
        2.61799\,{10}^{-7}\} ,\{ 0.25489,0.252139\} ,\{ 0.532869,0.508007\} ,
       \{ 0.793939,0.71312\} ,\{ 1.04501,0.864929\} ,\{ 1.17413,0.922355\} ,
       \{ 1.24595,0.947701\} ,\{ 1.31226,0.966765\} ,\{ 1.37966,0.981789\} ,
       \{ 1.41517,0.987915\} ,\{ 1.45282,0.993049\} ,\{ 1.46855,0.994777\} ,
       \{ 1.48546,0.996361\} ,\{ 1.50009,0.997501\} ,\{ 1.51605,0.998502\} , ....

.... and you get the idea.


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:19:24PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> I have to use MS Word and MS Excel to do my chemistry lab reports this
> semester, and summer. I can't use OO Calc because it doesn't support
> adding the trend line equation to a plot. I could use OO Writer for
> the Word parts, but since I have to use Excel, I just go ahead and use
> Word. I'm using Office 2008 for Mac, and if it is any indication of
> Office on Windows then there is plenty reason to use OOo aside from a
> possible subscription model. Office 2008 is the insanely frustrating
> and slow.
> 
> Yes. I just implied OOo is faster than Office. It's that damn bad.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> > this looks like the ultimate reason to switch to OpenOffice ( and maybe even
> >  Linux!)
> >
> >  News.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed a subscription service is
> >  in the works for the next consumer version of their Office Suite. "Code-named
> >  Albany, the product has a single installer that puts Office Home and Student,
> >  OneCare, as well as a host of Windows Live services, onto a user's PC. As
> >  long as users keep paying for the subscription, they are entitled to the
> >  latest versions of the products. Once they stop paying, they lose the right
> >  to use any version."
> >  Read more of this story at Slashdot.
> >  --
> >  Paul Cartwright
> >  Registered Linux user # 367800
> >  Registered Ubuntu User #12459
> >  _______________________________________________
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> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
> 
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
> 
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