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+#+TITLE:     Replacements for Office Suite
+#+AUTHOR:    Anoop Jacob Thomas
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+#+DATE:      2011-05-10 Tue
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+* Open Office (/Recommended/)
+** About Open Office
+
+OpenOffice.org is an open-source application suite whose main
+components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations,
+graphics, and databases. It is available for a number of different
+computer operating systems. It supports the ISO/IEC standard
+OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file
+format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others.
+
+** Where Open Office can be used
+   - Documentation
+   - Report writing
+   - Presentations
+   - Data collection and analysis
+   - Desktop publishing
+
+
+** Learning Resources
+
+   - http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
+   - http://support.openoffice.org/
+   - http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/ 
+
+** Support
+   - Oracle
+   - http://support.openoffice.org/
+
+     
+** Where Open Office is used
+   - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
+
+
+* Libre Office (/Recommended/)
+
+** About Libre Office
+
+LibreOffice is a free software office suite developed by The Document
+Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org, that is compatible with other
+major office suites and available on a variety of platforms. Its
+developers' goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with
+ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements.It is
+the default office suite in Ubuntu, and will be in the next versions
+of Fedora.
+
+** Where LibreOffice can be used:
+    - Documentation
+    - Report writing
+    - Data collection and analysis
+    - Presentations
+    - Desktop publishing
+
+** Learning Resources
+    - http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
+     
+
+** Support
+    - http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/
+
+** Where Open Office is used
+   - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
+
+     
+* LaTeX
+** About LaTeX
+
+LaTeX is a powerful typesetting system, used for producing scientific
+and mathematical documents of high typographic quality. Unlike WYSIWYG
+tools such as Microsoft Word, it uses plain text files that contain
+formatting commands. The typesetting system offers programmable
+desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating
+most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including
+numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout and
+bibliographies.
+
+** List of Courses/Subjects/Areas where LaTeX can be used
+
+    - Documentation
+    - Report writing
+    - Writing publishing-quality books and papers
+    - Presentations
+    - Desktop publishing
+
+** Learning Resources for LaTeX
+
+   - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
+   - http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
+   - http://www.latex-project.org/guides/usrguide.pdf
+   - http://spoken-tutorial.org/Study_Plans_LaTeX