RE: Importing specific tab of .xlsx file to lyx?
Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 5:10 PM On 08/29/2016 03:26 PM, Jannick wrote: > Is it possible to specify the tab name in an .xlsx file to be imported > to lyx using gnumeric's ssconvert.exe? > > The conversion command > > ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_html:latex $$i $$o > > picks one of the tabs. I am not sure if ssconvert's -S switch could > help here, but I would be curious if a specific tab could be chosen. Someone here may know, but you might better try asking on some Gnumeric-related list. Richard __ Thanks. ssconvert as of now (version 1.12.31) is already able to extract from an Excel spread sheet tabs per tab name such that, say, ssconvert creates the .tex files with names 'xlsxname__tabname.tex'. To take the next step the question would be: How can lyx be told to import this very .tex file thru the file import handler for external gnumeric/Excel material. In other words: can that be achieved by simply amend ' ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_html:latex $$i $$o' or anything else needed here (since the information and would be needed separately if I correctly understand the compilation procedures preparing external material)? Any help highly appreciated, where I would like to use lyx to type the document and have it compiled (in contrast to any other solution fiddling around with the files outside of lyx). Many thanks, J.
RE: Importing specific tab of .xlsx file to lyx?
-Original Message- From: Helge Hafting [mailto:helge.haft...@ntnu.no] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:52 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Den 29. aug. 2016 21:26, skrev Jannick: > Is it possible to specify the tab name in an .xlsx file to be imported > to lyx using gnumeric's ssconvert.exe? > > The conversion command > > ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_html:latex $$i $$o > > picks one of the tabs. I am not sure if ssconvert's -S switch could > help here, but I would be curious if a specific tab could be chosen. "man ssconvert" on linux gives some information about options you may want to investigate: -S, --export-file-per-sheet Export a file for each sheet if the exporter only supports one sheet at a time. The output filename is treated as a template in which sheet number is substi‐ tuted for %n and/or sheet name is substituted for %s. If there are not substitutions, a default of ".%s" is added. This one may give you several files. Further options: OPTIONS FOR THE PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (*.pdf) EXPORTER sheet Name of the workbook sheet to operate on. You can specify several sheets by repeating this option. If this option is not given the active sheet (i. e. the sheet that was active when the file was saved) is used. This is ignored if the object option is given. object Name of the sheet object to print. If this option is given any sheet option is ignored. Only the first object given is exported. These options are documented specifically for pdf export, (and a few others) This may or may not work for a latex export. Anyway, LyX can include PDF into a document too. Helge Hafting ___ Thanks, this is helpful. To have lyx run the compilation, the issue I am struggling with is how to config the file converter (and/or anything else) to pass on (i) the source .xlsx file name and (ii) the selected tab name such that for the file converter 1 - $$i is still the original .xlsx file name (like input.xlsx), since lyx appears to require this input to be able to copy the source file to a temp lyx folder (with $$i as target file name) 2 - $$o is the .tex file name incl. the table name (probably converted by ssconvert; like input_FirstTable.tex), since $$o is effectively the temp .tex file name lyx I guess the question behind this is how can we pass two independent arguments to the file converter? Does anyone have any idea - or am I missing something here? Thanks, J.
Re: Importing specific tab of .xlsx file to lyx?
Den 29. aug. 2016 21:26, skrev Jannick: Hi, Is it possible to specify the tab name in an .xlsx file to be imported to lyx using gnumeric's ssconvert.exe? The conversion command ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_html:latex $$i $$o picks one of the tabs. I am not sure if ssconvert's -S switch could help here, but I would be curious if a specific tab could be chosen. Certainly, as workaround the tabs could be split to a number of .xlsx files, however, this is not very practicable if the tabs depend on each other calculation-wise. "man ssconvert" on linux gives some information about options you may want to investigate: -S, --export-file-per-sheet Export a file for each sheet if the exporter only supports one sheet at a time. The output filename is treated as a template in which sheet number is substi‐ tuted for %n and/or sheet name is substituted for %s. If there are not substitutions, a default of ".%s" is added. This one may give you several files. Further options: OPTIONS FOR THE PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (*.pdf) EXPORTER sheet Name of the workbook sheet to operate on. You can specify several sheets by repeating this option. If this option is not given the active sheet (i. e. the sheet that was active when the file was saved) is used. This is ignored if the object option is given. object Name of the sheet object to print. If this option is given any sheet option is ignored. Only the first object given is exported. These options are documented specifically for pdf export, (and a few others) This may or may not work for a latex export. Anyway, LyX can include PDF into a document too. Helge Hafting
Re: Importing specific tab of .xlsx file to lyx?
On 08/29/2016 03:26 PM, Jannick wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to specify the tab name in an .xlsx file to be imported to > lyx using gnumeric's ssconvert.exe? > > The conversion command > > ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_html:latex $$i $$o > > picks one of the tabs. I am not sure if ssconvert's -S switch could help > here, but I would be curious if a specific tab could be chosen. Certainly, > as workaround the tabs could be split to a number of .xlsx files, however, > this is not very practicable if the tabs depend on each other > calculation-wise. Someone here may know, but you might better try asking on some Gnumeric-related list. Richard
Importing specific tab of .xlsx file to lyx?
Hi, Is it possible to specify the tab name in an .xlsx file to be imported to lyx using gnumeric's ssconvert.exe? The conversion command ssconvert --export-type=Gnumeric_html:latex $$i $$o picks one of the tabs. I am not sure if ssconvert's -S switch could help here, but I would be curious if a specific tab could be chosen. Certainly, as workaround the tabs could be split to a number of .xlsx files, however, this is not very practicable if the tabs depend on each other calculation-wise. Living on Win10 with LyX 2.1.5 and cygwin's ssconvert 1.12.31. Many thanks for your advice, J.
