They all sound like good suggestions. One thing you can do with OOo is submit enhancement requests (using www.openoffice.org) and the developers and community get to vote on the ideas. Those that have the most merit, may be included in later releases of OOo...
Give it a whirl and see where it takes you... /paul On 1/11/06, Spencer Golze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now I am enrolled in a University Calculus class and my professor has > taken a sudden liking to the new TI Interactive software. Sure, I admit, it > works pretty nicely, but it costs. He wants us to occasionally play around > with the software since it is installed on certain computers in our school > (I'm still in high school and he's a visiting professor), but otherwise I > would say to forget about it because I don't have the money. I don't know > how much you guys have checked out that specific software at Sun > Microsystems and I don't know how much you can do in respect to patents and > copyrights, but from looking at that software you can perhaps gain several > ideas to implement into it. Math right now is just basically a pretty print > program, while TI Interactive allows you to add graphs, define and use > functions, calculate all types of things, basically everything you can do on > a graphing calculator and more. You may want to keep Math as a simple > pretty print program, but perhaps you could allow graphs to be inserted and > maybe allow a few modes/options to be set to make different parts work > together more. I'm still a new user, so I don't know all the ins and outs > about it, so I don't know if I've overlooked something in it. The one main > thing that you do have a 1 up on TI Interactive is that you can basically > treat it like programming. Everything can be typed in to the command box, > and it makes it quite easy to complete your task faster. In the other > program, you have to select a "Math Box" to type in formulas and other > random junk. I don't know. I hope I haven't bugged you guys too badly with > what I hoped was a simple solution. > Last of all, I have to give an honest compliment to you guys. OpenOffice > is, of course, a fairly new product, and as far as I'm concerned, you guys > are almost up to where Microsoft is after years of work on their part. I've > completely stopped using Microsoft Office now that I have OpenOffice on my > computer. I absolutely love how you can save to all kinds of different file > formats, including PDF. Microsoft Office can't compare. Go OpenOffice! > > Spencer Golze > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
