---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim Tarvid <tar...@ls.net> Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:16 PM Subject: Re: Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org To: Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu>
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Allin Cottrell<cottr...@wfu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Priit Laes wrote: > >> Ühel kenal päeval, L, 2009-06-27 kell 16:30, kirjutas Konstantin >> Tokarev: >> > Hello, >> > Thank you very much for Gnumeric! I started using it about 1.5 years ago >> > (it was 1.8.2 shipped with Fluxbuntu 7.10) and I think it's the best >> > spreadsheet software in the world! >> > But I also think there's no worthy replacement OpenOffice.org Writer. It >> > would seem very nice if I could to insert Gnumeric charts and tables >> > directly into Writer. Will it become possible someday? >> >> You could try out Abiword if you want something small and fast... > > Abiword may be fine if you want a free-software word processor in > its own right. But many of us who have to work with > word-processor documents and spreadsheets have to interoperate > with Microsoft Office-using colleagues. Gnumeric is good at that > task, Abiword is not, by a long way. > > Allin Cottrell > For incoming documents, I often rely on Google. When I need more than text, I use Kompozer. When I need more than HTML, I use Prince and boom.css It's hard to beat R for graphs. When I spend more time and effort on the tool than on the expression, I look for another tool. One incompatibility I found between Gnumeric and Excel was "ceil" and "ceiling". Jim -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net The path to God starts with a simple act of kindness. -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net The path to God starts with a simple act of kindness. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
