On 4/05/2011 9:18 p.m., 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
File> Import> Gnumeric
Insert> File> External> Gnumeric (supports Excel, OOo, Gnumeric)
The Gnumeric external material allows you to have and maintain a
spreadsheet in Excel, OOo, Gnumeric. This means that whatever
modifications you introduce in the spreadsheet file, they will be
visible upon the next compilation of your LyX document. Pretty nifty,
actually. :)
A more advanced way to do something similar is to use R via the Sweave
module. But this is not for the faint hearted.
Cheers
Liviu
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 could even fire up an external wordprocessor and create a
pdf or latex document and import into LyX, but we don't. LyX is so much
better and more fun to work in.)
Regards,
Andrew
