https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157606
--- Comment #6 from Andrew Lentvorski <[email protected]> --- Please back up. The questions on the table are: 1) Is the LO Calc Biff8 advertisement for Copy/Paste broken? This has a question that probably needs to be answered prior to that: 1a) Does LO even support Biff8 for Copy/Paste? I *presumed* that the answer to this was "yes" based upon the fact that Gnumeric goes out of it's way to advertise such a thing (presumably as a target for OO/LO). However, that may *not* be a correct presumption and it would be good to get that answered authoritatively. 2) Do one of the currently advertised formats transmit formulas and formatting for Copy/Paste? I will happily use one of the other formats if they do so. However, my cursory inspection of all the different formats seems to indicate that none of them reliably transmit formulas and formatting. (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #5) > This is a case of XY problem. So is the actual problem "Pasting to Gnumeric > does not transfer formulas"? This problem could have different solutions, > and the "let's support an arbitrary *external*, *proprietary*, *non-generic* > clipboard format on Linux" option should not be the preferred solution - why > not think about "introduce a clipboard format based on standardized markup - > like ODF"? That would be a task for both LibreOffice and Gnumeric - but it > would be more in line with the overall phylosophy of all the involved > projects (Linux; LibreOffice; Gnumeric)... > > Or what about text/html? May we have a variant that transfers formulas? Any of these would be awfully nice. Might I request support for application/x-kspread-snippet? Nevertheless, if I'd like to get something working in the near future, practically everything that works on tabular data already understands Biff8 or Biff12. This includes things like Gnumeric, pandas, Apache POI/Arrow/Spark, as well as everything in the Windows ecosystem and *including LO*. Thanks. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
