----- Original Message -----
From: Garst R. Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Alphabetically sorting the strings rows of a table with Lyx
Juergen Vigna wrote:
>
> On 26-May-2000 Carlos wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm a user of Lyx.
> >
> > I think that with the current Lyx 1.1.4fix3 released (May21, 2000)
> > it is not possible ('is it true? I think so') to make Lyx or Latex (any
package)
> > to alphabetically sort the rows of a table, with, for example,
> > a list of names or a list of words.
> >
> > I'm a teacher and I need to handle in alphabetical order the names
or/and
> > surnames of my students, lists of words, vocabularies, strings... every
day.
> >
> > Is it possible in the future, in other version of Lyx?
> >
>
> Maybe, but don't count on it, as there is a lot of other important work
> todo (obviously we would accept a patch for this if it's made in a clean
> way and for the tabular insets as the normal tabulars are doomed to
> dissapear :). In any case I'll put your request in my todo folder.
>
> Jürgen
Wouldn't it be easier interface with a spreadsheet?
I just created a table in gnumeric, sorted it, saved it as a latex2e
file, and imported it into LyX. Looked real nice. There are so many
things that a spreadsheet or db prog can do, it seems silly to me to do
them in LyX.
Garst
> Jürgen
thanks for your quick answer.
> Garst
thanks for your solution. Now, I can handle the names of my students and my
vocabularies, but in a spreadsheet, not inside Lyx. My opinion is this: if
the data
are a few, wouldn't it be easier interface and faster with Lyx? For example,
a solution....
> Jürgen
...a solution in Lyx, in my opinion, can be:
first: I'm a user. I select "n" lines of text in 'Itemize' environment
or similar;
second: I press a button (or clic in a menu) and ...voilà!: all the lines in
alphabetical order.
third: I select all the lines again and I convert them in a table, if I
need a table.
All (one, two, three) in seconds.
Carlos.
