Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Wed 14 Mar 2018 at 18:46:46 (+1100), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 13.03.18 10:48, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 21:31:00 (+1100), Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > Too true. After a couple of hours of failing to get any GUI drawing > > > package, not least LibreOffice, to do

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 22:00:00 (-0700), Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 13/03/18 02:49 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > >I also long avoided the complexity of LibreOffice Calc, but a modest > >investment of time has left me satisfied with the results. Things I like: > > > >- Flexible CSV

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13.03.18 10:48, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 21:31:00 (+1100), Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Too true. After a couple of hours of failing to get any GUI drawing > > package, not least LibreOffice, to do anything useful, I used Vim to > > textually produce the 8 drawings for my

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13/03/18 02:49 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I also long avoided the complexity of LibreOffice Calc, but a modest investment of time has left me satisfied with the results. Things I like: - Flexible CSV import/export. I like to manipulate CSV files with grep, perl, and geany, and then

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > I also long avoided the complexity of LibreOffice Calc, but a modest > investment of time has left me satisfied with the results. +1 I use Apache OO, and there is very good documentation such that in 1-2 minutes I could find answer to any of my question and complete

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13/03/18 16:13, terryc wrote: What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under Stretch. I need to do some work quickly hint, if your answer is LibreOffice or similar read the question again. I'm frustrated that the last few time I wanted to do a simple spreadsheet layout

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 2018-03-13, Joe wrote: >> >> Yes, on a new stretch (print/SSH/standard utilities) with the >> following installed already: >> >> etckeeper cryptsetup dosfstools keyutils gdisk zip apt-show-versions >> aptitude boot-info-script bootlogd dkms exim4 firmware-linux flac >>

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:22:23 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 08:59:00 (+), Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:13:33 +1100 > > terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> wrote: > > > > > What is a simple sprea

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 21:31:00 (+1100), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 13.03.18 09:59, Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100 > > Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > An sc description: "Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and > > > it has most features

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

From: Toma? ?olc <tomaz.s...@tablix.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Simple spreadsheet program. Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 09:49:51 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Years ago I used to work with GNU Oleo in a text terminal. https://www.gnu.org/so

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 08:59:00 (+), Joe wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:13:33 +1100 > terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> wrote: > > > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly > > > > hint, i

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

> An alternative is org mode in Emacs if you have Emacs already > installed. Simple spreadsheet capabilities in tables. There's also SES, also part of Emacs (i.e. C-x C-f .ses RET should get you started). And Emacs being what it is, there's also the Dismal package, which you can install from

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

terryc wrote: > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly Package: sc Source: sc (7.16-4) Version: 7.16-4+b2 Installed-Size: 440 Maintainer: Adam Majer <ad...@zombino.com> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tuesday, 13 Mar 2018 at 14:13, terryc wrote: > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly I already mentioned sc. An alternative is org mode in Emacs if you have Emacs already installed. Simple spreadsheet capabilities in

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13.03.18 09:59, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100 > Erik Christiansen wrote: > > An sc description: "Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and > > it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things > > like graphing and saving

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 13.03.18 08:59, Joe wrote: > > I'm not aware of a 'simple' spreadsheet, as it is the kind of > > application that begs for feature-creep. Synaptic turns up sc, > > which I know nothing about, but the

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

Years ago I used to work with GNU Oleo in a text terminal. https://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/oleo.html I see it's been removed from Debian in 2009 though. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526212 Best regards Tomaž

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On 13.03.18 08:59, Joe wrote: > I'm not aware of a 'simple' spreadsheet, as it is the kind of > application that begs for feature-creep. Synaptic turns up sc, which I > know nothing about, but the description doesn't look compatible with > 'simple', unless the user interface is similar to

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:13:33 +1100 terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> wrote: > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly > > hint, if your answer is LibreOffice or similar read the question > again. I'm frustrated tha

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tuesday, 13 Mar 2018 at 14:13, terryc wrote: > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly sc works well and is indeed simple. not graphical. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.6 on Debian buster/sid sig

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

terryc wrote: > hint, if your answer is LibreOffice or similar read the question again. > I'm frustrated that the last few time I wanted to do a simple > spreadsheet layout, it was easier and faster to craft a LaTex document > then try and unfathom LibreOffice methods. Windows + MS Office :D

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 02:13:33PM +1100, terryc wrote: > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly Here's Instacalc, a free-to-use DOS program that I once used heavily. http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/dbase.htm#ins

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

scim probably ought to answer. On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, terryc wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:13:33 From: terryc <ter...@woa.com.au> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Simple spreadsheet program. Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:14:03 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debi

Re: Simple spreadsheet program.

On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 14:13:33 (+1100), terryc wrote: > What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under > Stretch. I need to do some work quickly I use gnumeric myself. As its description says, if you know Excel, then you'll know how to use it. (I use a Window M

Simple spreadsheet program.

What is a simple spreadsheet program that can be installed under Stretch. I need to do some work quickly hint, if your answer is LibreOffice or similar read the question again. I'm frustrated that the last few time I wanted to do a simple spreadsheet layout, it was easier and faster to craft