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 which you can switch
among them and LyX. Imagine that, close to the "Insert Table" button,
you had a (custom) button for "Insert Spreadsheet" table, that would
pop-up automatically gnumeric and allow you to enter your data directly
there, with the possibility to sum up things and whatever else, then you
simply close it and immediately see the data reflected in LyX, then
simply clicking on the table you had gnumeric immediately popped up
again for letting you modify the table contents, etc....,
then, would you still feel the need for a "native" spreadsheet
functionality in LyX ?
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 really by re-inventing the wheel inside LyX, that's not what
LyX was designed for (see for example #3205: Cannot create external file
from within LyX).
T.
