Hello, having spreadsheet support is a very good idea, but is it not possible to embed gnumeric or kspread?
Thanks. Rainer. > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:55:53PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > ... > > > Attached a patch that adds spreadsheet functionality to the tabular. > > Doesn't work very well yet and is obviously limited. But if you like > > this kind of thing, give it a swirl. > > Here an improved version. The widgets are now in the tabular_options_ > tabbed panel. Small other improvements. > > > 2002-02-05 Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * FormTabular.[Ch]: > * form_tabular.[Ch]: > * form_tabular.fd: > * insettext.[Ch]: > * tabular.[Ch]: > Added simple spreadsheet functionality. Now you get the row and > column sums for the current cell (but excluding it) visible in > the FormTabular dialog, and buttons are provided for their insertion > into the current cell. > > > Personally I feel this is so practically useful that it should go in as > soon as it is safe again (post-1.2.0pre1?). It is not a big patch and > pretty self-contained. > > I got irritated by having to type values twice, first into LyX, and then > into bc, when making invoices or other monetary documents. Of course > there may be cleaner (more modular) ways, but it seems like overkill as > something like 95% of what you (the average user) will want to calculate > is of the nature of adding columns, and another 4% adding rows, and all > that can be handled in this really minimal way ;-) > > -- Martin > > -- > Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Helsinki University of Technology > Department of Surveying > P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland > :wq > > -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni Stuttgart Tel.: +49-711-7816-215 / Fax: +49-711-7816-288 Breitwiesenstr. 20-22 D-70565 Stuttgart http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/
