Software by George Necula
I really like to write programs and to try out new programming
languages. Most of all I like to program little tools and utilities that
simplify my life. Some of them I believe will be useful for others so I have
decided to put some time into distributing and supporting them.
- TexPoint
is an add-in for Powerpoint that allows the easy use
of Latex symbols and displays on Powerpoint slides.
It contains a little Latex interpreter that will transform text of the form
"\alpha_0 \times \beta_{12}" into the
appropriate sequence of symbols. It comes with macros predefined for all Latex
and AMS symbols. You can also define you own per-presentation macros. Or, you
can write regular Latex source files that are compiled on the fly and inserted
in the slide. The neat thing is that the source is embedded into the
presentation so you can edit it later and you never have to worry about broken
links.
- SeeTerra is a photo album creator/viewer. It is different from other such tools because it has has an interface for adding descriptions and GPS coordinates to your photos (even those on a web server), and it can show your pictures in Google Earth.
- A set of Latex macros that
allow dumping of Latex state. Useful if you use lots of packages that change
rarely and you are annoyed how long it takes to reload them every time you
process your document. Let me know if you think you could find them
useful.
- OpenGZ.
A simple Perl script that works around a few bugs in Microsoft Explorer (files
with the extension .gz are decompressed on the fly
without changing the extension, which in turn confuses greatly the
decompression program that Explorer invokes to handle ".gz" file; The other bug is
that sometimes Explorer changes the extensions from ".ps.gz"
to ".ps[3].gz"
which again leads to annoying errors). Please let me know if you want
this one.