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




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