On 04/05/2011 18:42, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Andrew Parsloe 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. (To take matters to extremes, you
this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics
editor for pictures. after simple editor is introduced another next requests
appear and at the end we will have the whole office suite as you propose.
i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic
material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps
which do it much better then we will ever do.
we can create some reasonable binding to them, but thats all i would propose...
Indeed. But I could well imagine a simple OctaveInset that would get the
table cell indexes as arguments and automatically call Octave to compute
the result. Similar what we can do with Octave in math.
Abdel.