On 05/04/2011 12:33 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote:
On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe<apars...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to
fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever.
I don't quite get that. Why? In the background you are firing up some
sort of whatever, and it may not be the one you want to use. I always
preferred the unix way, to have a lot of tools that can talk to each
other, not the one big program that does everything (which is one reason
I always hated emacs). Easy import/export to your favorite spreadsheet
is good -- in fact, I usually use this in a cut&paste way which works.
Documents are for reporting and interpreting calculations, not doing them.
Maybe I'm just too old for this...
The fact that 1 GB seems small nowadays is a sad reminder of how bloated some
programs have become.
Precisely for that reason I would not be in favor of an added spreadsheet tool
in LyX.
See also this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep
I agree with this. LyX doesn't have to do everything.
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