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

[Melvetta Overturf]

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On Jun 17, 2005, at 12:04 PM, atoa wrote:

> Not a joke at all. Set the columns and rows to the size you want, and 
> draw whatever you want as objects. Then print, with the option to 
> print gridlines. I've been doing it for years.
>
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, George Pepper wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>> Excel
>>>
>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, George Pepper wrote:
>>>
>>>> Greetings fellow listers,
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, and you can check out the blog if you want here:
>>>>
>>>> http://hucbald.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>> Pep
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