Helge Hafting <helge.hafting <at> hist.no> writes: > > On 10. sep. 2011 16:14, Christian Wilhelmsen wrote: > > Hi! > > > > When trying to import and .xls or .gnumeric to LyX 2.0 I get the error > > message: > > > > "no information for converting gnumeric format files to latex. > > Define a converter in the preferences". > > > > I understand what it asks of me, but I can't seem to figure out how to > > define the converter. > > I have installed gnumeric on my computer. > > You should not need to define a converter, LyX supports "ssconvert" > which usually comes with gnumeric. > > Is the ssconvert program in your PATH? If LyX cannot find ssconvert, > then the conversion from gnumeric to latex won't work. Because ssconvert > does that job.
Hi Helge, I do get the same error message as Christian. How do you actually "Define a converter in the preferences" of Lyx? ssconvert has been installed with gnumeric (1.10.16), though Lyx is unable to find the path. And I am to stupid to define exatly that particular path. Best regards Fred