On 9/28/20 11:06 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 04:59:23PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I have a patch ready to >>>>> 1.) new format (pdf9) + conversion 'docbook5->pdf9' >>>>> This is using pandoc, so that one can display the docbook data >>>>> 2.) A wrapper/filter around ssconvert for converting spreadsheets >>>>> to be inserted in docbook5 documents >>>>> >>>>> The first part should be uncontroversial. >>>>> For the second there may be objections, because the wrapper is >>>>> written in perl. >>>> That's indeed controversial. What's the justification for writing >>>> that in perl when all other conversion script are in python? >> The only justification is my (in)ability to write it in python. > Well, it's sort of sending the packagers the message if you want to have > fully functional lyx if should bump perl dependency. This does not strike > me as a good idea if this was the only reason.
Someone can certainly do the conversion to Python. Is it worth an enhancement request to the gnumeric people to include docbook-compatible output? Can't be that hard. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
