Document and Display Software

LaTeX

Open Office

​OpenOffice is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

Supermongo (sm)

​Supermongo (sm) is a flexible graphics package. An on-line guide and sm tutorial are available. SM's great strength is that you can define macros to perform common tasks. SM can also emulate regular Mongo - to do this issue the command `compatible'. Examples of sm macros can be found in /data/system/user_guide/sm/. The version installed is sm 2_4_26

To run sm just type:

sm : quit

To get help type:

sm -help

Ghostview

Imagemagick

​ImageMagick®, is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can be added to images and stretched and rotated. version

xfig

Acroread

OpenOffice

E-mail and Browsers

Mozilla

Firefox

Thunderbird

Pine

Mutt

Plugins for Browsers

Acroread

Flash

Sun JRE 1.5

EDITORS

emacs

To start ​emacs, just type emacs &. For an introduction to Emacs type C-h t inside Emacs to enter the Emacs tutorial.

vi vi(m)

vi stands for VIsual editor, and it is the standard UNIX editor. As such it is widely used. The advantage of vi is that whatever linux/Unix system you use, there will be a version of vi there, it is also compact and quick, much quicker to start up than for instance emacs or nedit. The downside is that it is difficult to learn, more so than emacs. If you are not going to use it, you only need to know that you get out of it by typing :q or :q! to avoid saving the file.