Re: [sc-dev] Metadata section of XLS files

2006-12-14 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:38:26PM +0100, Ren? Peinl wrote: Hi guys, I'm sorry to bother you with this, but you seem to be the only people reachable outside Microsoft that know about the XLS file format. I've dealt myself a lot with the XML versions and also did some minor enhancements to

Re: [sc-dev] open office calc question.

2005-10-11 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:51:01AM +0200, Daniel Rentz wrote: Hi, Askanthea wrote: I dont know if you can help but i got your email from the -to do page. If I have a long column of variables for example numbers 1-100 in cells a1-a100 when i try to print it comes out on 2 or 3 pages - i

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-23 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:53:12AM +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote: But even the description of a single version's behavior is unlikely to be 100% accurate. If OpenFormula is supposed to specify something, something like a standard even, such a discrepancy with Excel's behavior wouldn't

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-23 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:52:04PM -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote: But speaking in the short-term, what would that affect us with those existing Calc functions that share the same name as Excel but behave differently? For instance, there exists the CONVERT function that work differently from

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:19:24PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi dev, On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 23:33:36 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/192250tid=93 Thanks for the pointer. And for those who are interested, here is what came to my mind

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:33:44PM +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote: Jody Goldberg wrote: What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the standard. If that is the case then there is already a standard, MS