Venn diagrams online
Posted: 2020-11-04 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: chart, diagram, venn Leave a commentI’ve been preparing some figures, where I need to include Venn diagrams. I am looking to make them proportional to the values. So far, I have not found a way to do this in Gnumeric, WPS Office LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org. I guess, I should find the time to learn a little bit more of R. Meanwhile, I’ve been searching for a quick solution online.
Shorten contents of spreadsheet cells
Posted: 2020-08-05 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: Cell values, function, gnumeric, left, shorten, spreadsheet Leave a commentI have a spreadsheet file with a list of species’ Latin names. I want to automatically create abbreviations for each species, by shortening both the genus and specific epithet to a certain number of characters. Here’s how to do it.
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Remove new lines from a text file
Posted: 2019-10-08 Filed under: office | Tags: line, sed, space, tr Leave a commentI want to copy some text from a PDF file into a word processor. Copying works, but the line breaks from the PDF formatting are also copied. This messes up the text and results in disconnected text with many rows. I decided to use the command line to fix this automatically. I searched a bit and it seems that there are two steps that have to be taken.
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Syntax highlighting
Posted: 2019-08-04 Filed under: system, office | Tags: libreoffice, openoffice, html, writer, WPS Office, syntax, highlight, word Leave a commentI’ve been writing a text document, where I want to paste an excerpt of a shell script. I want to put it in a frame as a separate “figure”, referred to in the text as “Box ##”. To make it clearer to the reader, I want to have the appropriate syntax highlighting. How to do it?
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WPS Office dictionary
Posted: 2017-10-15 Filed under: office | Tags: dictionary, en_GB, spellcheck, WPS Office 1 CommentI have been using WPS Office for quite some time now, and I am really not looking back. The default spellcheck that comes with the office is American English (en_US). I wanted to add a spell check in Writer for British English, since this is what I normally use for documents.
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