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This is beta release 1.4 of GNU Oleo
This is a bug fix release on the occaision of the second GNU CD-ROM.
Order yours today! Previous announcements follow:
This is beta release 1.3.1 of GNU Oleo.
Oleo is a spreadsheet program (better for you than the more expensive
spreadsheet). It is an X client and also runs on character-based
terminals. It can generate embedded Postscript renditions of
spreadsheets. Keybindings should be familiar to Emacs users and are
configurable by users.
This is primarily a bug fix release. If you had trouble compiling
1.3, please try 1.3.1. Pretty much all reported bugs are believed to
have been fixed, so re-reports are appropriate. A notable exception
is the large number of spelling errors in the on-line documentation. I
apologize for those; they'll be fixed in 1.3.2.
New formula functions for manipulating dates and times have been
added. See the file NEWS for more information.
Bug reports should be sent to bug-oleo@prep.ai.mit.edu.
Oleo users may wish to subscribe to bug-oleo by sending a message to
bug-oleo-request@prep.ai.mit.edu. Subscribers will receive all
incoming bug reports, some of which may contain helpful information or
(unconfirmed) patches. If there are enough subscribers, the list
might become a good place to seek or offer help. The drawback to
subscribing is that subscribers will receive all incoming bug reports
which may contain lots of useless or uninteresting information.
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[This is from the 1.3 announcement, which is still current.]
Introduced in 1.3 were many new features:
- On line help. ^H is the help prefix. ^H ^W creates a wallchart of
keybindings.
- Oleo speaks gnuplot. The prefix M-g leads to a menu of commands for
drawing graphs.
- Tax forms. The first spreadsheet contributed by a volunteer: 1992
federal and State of Connecticut tax forms. Load the file `irs-1992.oleo'.
- The keybindings are more Emacs-like.
The file NEWS describes these changes in more detail.
The file USING is the only manual-type documentation there is at this
time. It is somewhat out of date. The on-line documentation is more
up to date.
Future plans include:
- More options for postscript printing than just EPS.
- Incrementally improving the Oleo command set and display interface.
- Extending the data model to support
- Multiple spreadsheet files (like multiple buffers in Emacs).
- Multiple named variables and arrays within a single file
(or shared by multiple files).
- Symbolic addressing (rather than only row/column addressing).
- A volunteer has offered to work on a manual for Oleo.