On 9/29/20 3:18 AM, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:30:00 -0400 > schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>: > >> On 9/28/20 7:19 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: >>> Am Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:54:44 -0400 >>> schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> The output of ssconvert _is_ docbook compatible. But it contains also the >>> document >>> header which we have to discard because we need the table definition only. >> I see. They should have an option for that. But since they don't, it >> will be easy to write a python script to strip the header. What output >> format do you use? >> >> Riki >> >> > The output format is 'xhtml_table' > > \Format xhtml_table xhtml "XHTML Table (for spreadsheets)" "" "" "gnumeric" > "document" > "" > \converter gnumeric xhtml_table "perl $$s/scripts/wssconvert > --export-type=Gnumeric_html:xhtml $$i $$o" "" > \converter oocalc xhtml_table "perl $$s/scripts/wssconvert > --export-type=Gnumeric_html:xhtml $$i $$o" "" > \converter excel xhtml_table "perl $$s/scripts/wssconvert > --export-type=Gnumeric_html:xhtml $$i $$o" "" > \converter excel2 xhtml_table "perl $$s/scripts/wssconvert > --export-type=Gnumeric_html:xhtml $$i $$o" "" > > Also the change in lib/xtemplates/gnumeric.xtemplate is needed for 'Format > DocBook' > - Product "[Spreadsheet: $$FName]" > + Product "$$Contents(\"$$AbsPath$$Basename.xhtml\")" > + UpdateFormat xhtml_table > + UpdateResult "$$AbsPath$$Basename.xhtml"
Can you post or send me your perl wrapper? I'll convert it to python and leave the rest to you. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
