I somehow missed this message when you first posted it. here's what I use, or have used in the past. NOTE: my needs for "Office" type programs are quite simple and minimalist - easily met by even basic software. It sounds like your needs are similar. On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:13:27PM +0000, Dede Lamb wrote:
I could use md + pandoc to produce text documents which takes care of my main use case for office.
yep, good idea. I use markdown + pandoc for almost all documentation and writing these days. I always used to write my docs in vim and then do the markup and formatting in libreoffice or abiword in the past (IMO writing and markup are two completely separate things) so doing it this way was not a big change. vim's syntax highlighting works quite nicely with markdown too. If I need more than what markdown can do i use pandoc to convert to ODF and finish the document with libreoffice. (This is usually complicated tables - really the only thing it can't do that i occasionally need is tables with multiple headers...not multi-line headers, but multiple levels of headers - e.g. a top-level with 2 or more columns, each of which has two or more sub-columns.) if i was less lazy, or needed to write complex documents more often, I'd make the effort to learn TeX....I can do simple things in it easily enough, but real mastery of it requires more effort and time than i'm willing to put in. markdown's got the "80% good-enough" seal of approval :)
The only other thing I use office for is the occasional spreadsheet manipulation (auto-filling and basic math functions, tinkering with sums etc). I'm not sure of a suitable stand-in for this.
Gnumeric is a fairly light-weight spreadsheet - lighter than libreoffice, anyway. It's not as capable as localc but it will do all the things you mentioned and more. I used to use it whenever I needed to do spreadsheety stuff (which isn't all that often). I mostly use libreoffice calc now, largely because I've spent enough time fixing, rewriting, and improving "macros" (i.e. functions and subs in LO's version of Basic) in spreadsheets I've downloaded or that people have sent to me that I know the language reasonably well now.
Thoughts? No idea too crazy, bonus points if it works in a console, minus points for cloud services ;)
I used to use sc occasionally years ago. No idea if it's still worth using. Package: sc Source: sc (7.16-4) Version: 7.16-4+b2 Installed-Size: 440 Maintainer: Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libncurses5 (>= 6), libtinfo5 (>= 6) Description-en: Text-based spreadsheet with VI-like keybindings "Spreadsheet Calculator" is a much modified version of the public- domain spread sheet sc, which was posted to Usenet several years ago by Mark Weiser as vc, originally by James Gosling. It is based on rectangular table much like a financial spreadsheet. . Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things like graphing and saving in foreign formats. It's very stable and quite easy to use once you've put a little effort into learning it. Description-md5: 0925a794779dba23662eeb41fb663c7e Tag: office::spreadsheet, role::program, scope::application, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::editing, works-with::spreadsheet Section: math Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/s/sc/sc_7.16-4+b2_amd64.deb Size: 211774 MD5sum: 94c7293bbb4ed7858f861d0e1bc3dfe5 SHA256: 1a676b93a1e376f18f8efc30e574c1b65b84be12157289d4105850810f2804e5 craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>