On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 09:32, Guenter Milde wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:45:19 -0400 wrote Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:37:19PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > I guess you mean gnumeric :) > > > > > > We have a bug open about importing such files > > > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220 > > > > > > However, the code produced by gnumeric is so ugly, that I cannot see > > > how we could import and understand that. > > > > Export to LaTeX2e produces ugly format, but it may be cleaned > > from all the stuff to get very plain LaTeX table. Unfortunately, > > I am not in my sed mood today, but it could be done. > > I had bad experiences with the latex-export from gnumeric too. After some > tries I gave up. (And if I remember right, the newest gnumeric versions did > drop the latex-export at all...) > > If there are no special characters in the table, exporting as csv (comma (or > mostly TAB) separated values) and import into LyX via the csv2lyx script > (from the contributed stuff section of the LyX home site) is a quite > straigtforward way. Sorry, I was meaning gnumeric, of course :-). Thanks for all those advices, but importing from standard CSV would not be affordable for my usage, since my goal was to keep gnumeric's table format (colors, backgrounds, etc).
I wonder if cleaning gnumeric's latex output would keep those stuff. Wouldnt it be easyer to build a lyx output filter for gnumeric ? -- Jerome Oufella [EMAIL PROTECTED]
