On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Jannick Asmus <[email protected]> wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > >>> Opening the lyx 2.0file (downloaded from >>> http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/SpreadsheetExternalInset) with LyX 2.0 >>> beta 1, LyX prompts the following error: "lyx file not readable". >>> Shouldn't the file be readable - or is an upgrade to beta2 needed >>> here? >>> >> Even more. If my computations are correct, the patch went in >> post-beta2. Something around r36786 should be fine. But since you're >> on Win Vista, you'll probably need to wait for the beta3 binaries. > > Thinking about that a bot more, I am asking myself if everything needed > comes shipped with LyX or is anything else needed to use the spreadsheet > import feature? > You need Gnumeric. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/SpreadsheetExternalInset http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets
>>> Working on WinVista. > > Another question which might be good to know in advance: How does LyX or the > spreadsheet reporter know which part of the spreadsheet should be imported > into the document? Just asking out of the mist - without the possibility to > check myself while waiting for new beta versions. > See the example in the link above. As far as I understand, it takes non-empty cells. The way I intend to use the feature is one (simple) table per spreadsheet. Regards Liviu > Thx - as always. > > Best, > J. > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
