[Cube] Needed: OS X Digital "Graph Paper" Program

[George Pepper]

I'm assuming that was a joke, right?  I have Excel and the graph paper pages are worse than useless (As a matter of fact, I've never been able to use that program for ANYTHING because I can't even figure out the basics of WTF it's supposed to do: It has no "reason for being" that I can detect).  If I try to do anything with them I just get a "this cell is protected" error message.  I don't need to deal with a user-hostile Micro-Suck loser interface. Excel is proto-typical Micro-Suck: I'd need to take a college level course just to be able to draw a simple graph with that POS.  I want something that is simple to use with a user friendly and intuitive interface.  All the freeware I've found is either for PC or they're designed to have math formulas put into them: They are all extreme overkill for what I want.  All I wanted to do was DRAW A SIMPLE FREAKING GRAPH WITH AN X/Y AXIS ON 12 PER INCH FREAKING GRAPH PAPER!!!  Another one of those "I can't BELIEVE nobody but me has ever thought of this in TWENTY FREAKING YEARS of home computing!" type of deals.  Another reason I hate computers and avoid MS software like it's a bio-engineered super-bubonic-plague that will inflict a long, slow, lingering, miserable death on anyone who has even the briefest contact with it.

I finally just gave up on the idea and used standard music notation.

Screw it.

Pep

On Friday, June 17, 2005, at 09:16AM, atoa <atoa at krak.net> wrote:

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>On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, George Pepper wrote:
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>> Greetings fellow listers,
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>> I have a wonky music theory blog, and I have the ability to add musical examples to it with standard musical notation, but I am putting together a post about the technical mechanics of melody that will require me to post examples in graphic form.  What I am looking for is basically a digital representation of the standard 12 lines per inch graph paper that we are all familiar with, but in a program that will run in OS X and it must allow me to "draw" lines on the graph (Several colors if possible), label the graph with descriptions etc. and save them.  The saved format is not to important - it can be a format speciffic to that program - because of course I can change them to PDF and then to JPG, which is what I do with my musical examples, then I just add them to my Smugmug account and link to them.
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>> I have not been able to locate such a program, but I'm assuming that this must be something that is quite common and simple to do, graphs being needed for so many applications.  A nice little freeware app would be perfect if there is one.
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>> Thanks, and you can check out the blog if you want here:
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>> http://hucbald.blogspot.com/
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>> Pep
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