Document and Display Software

LaTeX

Open Office

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

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. The AucTeX information on the IoA Local Page describes a powerful interface to writing LaTeX in Emacs.

You can configure Emacs to your hearts content by editing your own version of the Emacs configuration file ~/.emacs (a default .emacs file can be copied from /public/Default_Scripts/.emacs, which contains the following lines and some additional features that may be useful) e.g. for editing text of a specific type that emacs knows about, such as fortran, tex, c or idl script code, you should switch to the appropriate major mode so that coloured text can be used to highlight different sections of text, add the following lines to this file:

(setq font-lock-face-attributes

'((font-lock-comment-face "SeaGreen" nil nil t nil nil)

(font-lock-variable-name-face "blue") (font-lock-string-face "red") (font-lock-function-name-face "Magenta") (font-lock-keyword-face "blue") (font-lock-type-face "MediumOrchid") (font-lock-reference-face "orchid")))

(setq emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) (setq latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) (setq tex-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) (setq fortran-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) (setq info-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock) (setq dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

For IDL scripts (.pro files) you can similar obtain coloured text and recognise IDL syntax by adding the lines:

(autoload 'idlwave-mode "idlwave" "IDLWAVE Mode" t) (autoload 'idlwave-shell "idlw-shell" "IDLWAVE Shell" t) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("
.pro
'" . idlwave-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq idlwave-help-directory "/usr/local/etc") (add-hook 'idlwave-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)

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.