Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where you can sum a column of figures for instance, This is not accurate. In 2.0 you can: File Import Table (CSV) File Import xls

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: No File Import Gnumeric here (fedora 14 lyx-2.0.0-0.21.rc3.fc14.x86_64) What am I missing? Maybe Gnumeric. And perhaps LyX 2.0. Liviu

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where you can sum a >> column of figures for instance, >> > This is not accurate. In 2.0 you can: > File > Import > Table (CSV) > File

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > No File > Import > Gnumeric here (fedora 14 lyx-2.0.0-0.21.rc3.fc14.x86_64) > > What am I missing? > Maybe Gnumeric. And perhaps LyX 2.0. Liviu

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Liviu, on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. greetings, el On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: The current lack of even a basic 'active'

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. You should see the Gnumeric external material. It supports files saved under Gnumeric, OOo or Excel spreadsheet

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Il 04/05/2011 19:07, Abdelrazak Younes ha scritto: Indeed. But I could well imagine a simple OctaveInset that would get the table cell indexes as arguments and automatically call Octave to compute the result. Similar what we can do with Octave in math. as from my experience, Octave is so slow

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Oh, I see, gnumeric will pull ODS or XLS in as well as its own. This is non-intuitive, but I haven't read the manual yet:-)-O el On 5/5/11 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 05/05/2011 18:04, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Il 04/05/2011 19:07, Abdelrazak Younes ha scritto: Indeed. But I could well imagine a simple OctaveInset that would get the table cell indexes as arguments and automatically call Octave to compute the result. Similar what we can do with Octave in

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Liviu, on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. greetings, el On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> The current lack of even a basic

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter > External Material. > > Please advise. > You should see the Gnumeric external material. It supports files saved under Gnumeric, OOo or Excel

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Il 04/05/2011 19:07, Abdelrazak Younes ha scritto: Indeed. But I could well imagine a simple OctaveInset that would get the table cell indexes as arguments and automatically call Octave to compute the result. Similar what we can do with Octave in math. as from my experience, Octave is so slow

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Oh, I see, gnumeric will pull ODS or XLS in as well as its own. This is non-intuitive, but I haven't read the manual yet:-)-O el On 5/5/11 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 05/05/2011 18:04, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Il 04/05/2011 19:07, Abdelrazak Younes ha scritto: Indeed. But I could well imagine a simple OctaveInset that would get the table cell indexes as arguments and automatically call Octave to compute the result. Similar what we can do with Octave in

Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Dear LyX developers users, Now that LyX 2.0 is about to be launched perhaps it is a good time to mention the missing element in the 'LyX office suite'. At present LyX provides the wordprocessor mathematics editor, beamer (presumably) covers the slide show/presentation side of things, and I

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where you can sum a column of figures for instance, This is not accurate. In 2.0 you can: File Import Table (CSV) File Import xls File Import Gnumeric

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 4/05/2011 9:18 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloeapars...@clear.net.nz wrote: The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where you can sum a column of figures for instance, This is not accurate. In 2.0 you can: File Import Table

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. It sure would. (To take matters to extremes, you could even fire up an external wordprocessor and

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloeapars...@clear.net.nz wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. It sure would. (To take matters to extremes, you

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Il 04/05/2011 11:46, Andrew Parsloe ha scritto: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. AFAICS, some times the problem might simply be the degree of integration of the external tools with LyX, and the easiness by

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloeapars...@clear.net.nz wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Andrew Parsloe wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. (To take matters to extremes, you this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics editor for pictures. after simple editor is

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, 4 May 2011, Pavel Sanda wrote: i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps which do it much better then we will ever do. we can create some reasonable binding to them, but

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: I'm posting this question because I also feel that the integration of external tools is not yet as simple and immediate as it could be, however this can be fixed by little modifications to the GUI interaction model, not

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 04/05/2011 18:42, Pavel Sanda wrote: Andrew Parsloe wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. (To take matters to extremes, you this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Parsloe apars...@clear.net.nz wrote: For a computer with limited memory (1 GB seemed big when I bought it), where there's a lot of disk activity with multiple programs running, being able to work in LyX alone would be helpful. If computer resources are

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Le 04/05/11 18:42, Pavel Sanda a écrit : i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps which do it much better then we will ever do. I could not agree more. JMarc

Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Dear LyX developers & users, Now that LyX 2.0 is about to be launched perhaps it is a good time to mention the missing element in the 'LyX office suite'. At present LyX provides the wordprocessor & mathematics editor, beamer (presumably) covers the slide show/presentation side of things, and

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where you can sum a > column of figures for instance, > This is not accurate. In 2.0 you can: File > Import > Table (CSV) File > Import > xls File > Import >

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 4/05/2011 9:18 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where you can sum a column of figures for instance, This is not accurate. In 2.0 you can: File> Import> Table

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to > fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. > It sure would. > (To take matters to extremes, you > could even fire up an external

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. It sure would. (To take matters to extremes,

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Il 04/05/2011 11:46, Andrew Parsloe ha scritto: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. AFAICS, some times the problem might simply be the degree of integration of the external tools with LyX, and the easiness by

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > > > On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe >> wrote: >>> Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to >>> fire up Gnumeric or

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Andrew Parsloe wrote: > Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having > to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. (To take matters to extremes, you this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics editor for pictures. after simple editor is

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, 4 May 2011, Pavel Sanda wrote: i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps which do it much better then we will ever do. we can create some reasonable binding to them, but

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > I'm posting this question because I also feel that the integration of > external tools is not yet as simple and immediate as it could be, however > this can be fixed by little modifications to the GUI interaction model,

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On 04/05/2011 18:42, Pavel Sanda wrote: Andrew Parsloe wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or Excel or whatever. (To take matters to extremes, you this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > For a computer with limited memory (1 GB seemed big when I bought it), where > there's a lot of disk activity with multiple programs running, being able to > work in LyX alone would be helpful. > If computer resources

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

Le 04/05/11 18:42, Pavel Sanda a écrit : i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps which do it much better then we will ever do. I could not agree more. JMarc