On Sunday 20 May 2007 09:25, Russell Davie wrote: > Hi > How can spreadsheet data be copying into LyX quickly? > I can't get Open Office or Gnumeric to do this easily. > Surely there must be a better way than one cell at a time? > cheers > Russell
Hi Russell, If you're just doing one spreadsheet small enough to fit on a book page, I'd suggest doing it one cell at a time. If this is a need you'll have over and over, you can make a computer program to convert a spreadsheet export (CSV, tab delimited or whatever) to native LyX (bypass the LyX GUI). LyX native language representations of tables, although not terribly difficult to understand, have voluminous meta-information with confusing linefeeds, so I'd imagine debugging your program would be somewhat time consuming. If you write the program, please license it as free software and post it so the rest of us can use it :-) Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
