Thanks for your suggestions. Now I am using OpenOffice for last few days. I don't have much problem apart from writing bengali. Can you please clarify me how to install and use fonts? The bengali fonts I have are not working here. And the front progoty how can I get the lay-out?
Another question. As a part of my work I have to interview people and occassionally I use a sony tape-recorder. Is there any way to convert the audio in text output and to reformat it ( inserting pictures, tables, etc.)? And about statistical packages, I am giving below the softwares which my colleagues use 1. Limdep 2. SPSS 3. Microfit 4. E-views 5. Shazam 6. STATA Can you suggest the replacements? It will be nice if you can suggest alternatives (free) of TSP and SAS, as we can't affoard these. Better if you can categorise the alternatives like Time series, Cross section,panel data (qualitative/quantitative). Last one for this time. If we categorise the responses according to spatial distribution how can we do that using maps and PRM excercise? Let me break up. Say, we are interviewing people regarding migration. The responses are of different types, viz. land fragmentation, drought and flood, riots so many. Now these different groups of people from different places are coming together to develop a new settlement and a new socio-cultural dynamics. We want to present this thing in visual way. One of us had use a GIS package for one year, but that was very clarical job and costly too. Is there any alternative in Linux environment? It would be preferable if the people can participate in the whole thing after a minimum demonstration, like the can identify their para, where they live, click it and get some questions to fill-up, in both ways, marking it or entering some text and numbers, and the same thing for the places from where they hav come. Now from these entries some sort of tables can be generated which will be the inputs of those statistical packages. Perhaps we need to mention our work. It does not have any relation with my profession. We are a group of friends working in development sector, for that reason we do have some access to these data and we want to make these on our own. As our monthly average income is around 4000, we can't affoard all those costly softwares, and the net neither. We are no technical person. So please reply in a way that we can understand. Already, it is more than 15 minutes. So, I have to finish it. >From our part we just want to be clear whether it is very ambitious to plan to develop this sort of thing on our own under your guidence? We don't know whether this is OT or not, if so please pardon us. And Ashwin, P.K to all of the thread regarding internet connection, we could not follw much of the discussion, but has it something to do to network distant places? If so, can we contact you off-list? Thanks, sandip, kunal, indranil and bhatu. > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
