begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:45:21PM -0800: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > > >In any case, the original question seems best answered by cdl's > >suggestion about tbl, or a simple script (perl is as good as any). > > > > Now I feel more comfortable going back to the future and defending W3C. > > Folks, I wanted point-and-drool. And I meant it.
As in a GUI solution? Sorry, I forgot to contemplate that possibility. > I chose Amaya. It does what I wanted. Hm. Never looked at it. I figured you already had this data somewhere, not that you were looking for in-place solutions. > I *could* do all manner of things. However, think about what is > involved when inserting a column and adding its new data. Can any of > these command line solutions do that easily? Not that I know of. I > might as well write the HTML by hand. I just checked, and OO 2.0 doesn't seem to support TSV. I thought Star Office used to... Hm. > I'm happy to be proven wrong, though. How about a little background... how would you *like* to work? I envisioned something like: 1. Edit document in some spreadsheet tool. 2. Export to TSV. 3. Run TSV file through script producing HTML fragment. 4. Open up HTML document. 5. Find table in question. Select whole table, delete. 6. Read in file containing HTML fragment. 7. Tweak, save, and view results. -- If you're looking for OLE-style binding, count me out. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
