On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX
> office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain
> tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet.
...
> My request was for a button on the table toolbar that
> would change LyX's \begin{tablular}{|c|c|c|} into
> \begin{spreadtab}{{tabular}{|c|c|c|}}, and \end{tabular} into
> \end{spreadtab}, and a few 'tidying up' operations like replacing
> \tabularnewline with \\. Again, no request that LyX acquire calculating
> abilities. Rather, the ability to replace one environment, tabular, with
> another, spreadtab. The calculational abilities are in spreadtab and, as
> far as LyX is concerned, are a side-effect of the environment change.
Maybe, if you had used the phrase: "Add LyX support for the 'spreadtab' LaTeX
package", there would not have been such an uproar.
> LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to
> see it heading down the road of OpenOffice.
But I am pretty sure that, when this support is implemented, there will
be requests that LyX displays the calculated values ;-)
Anyway, I support this enhancement request.
Günter
