On 9/28/20 7:19 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:54:44 -0400 > schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>: > >> On 9/28/20 11:06 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 04:59:23PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> I have a patch ready to >>>>>>> 1.) new format (pdf9) + conversion 'docbook5->pdf9' >>>>>>> This is using pandoc, so that one can display the docbook data >>>>>>> 2.) A wrapper/filter around ssconvert for converting spreadsheets >>>>>>> to be inserted in docbook5 documents >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The first part should be uncontroversial. >>>>>>> For the second there may be objections, because the wrapper is >>>>>>> written in perl. >>>>>> That's indeed controversial. What's the justification for writing >>>>>> that in perl when all other conversion script are in python? >>>> The only justification is my (in)ability to write it in python. >>> Well, it's sort of sending the packagers the message if you want to have >>> fully functional lyx if should bump perl dependency. This does not strike >>> me as a good idea if this was the only reason. >> Someone can certainly do the conversion to Python. >> >> Is it worth an enhancement request to the gnumeric people to include >> docbook-compatible output? Can't be that hard. >> >> Riki >> >> > The output of ssconvert _is_ docbook compatible. But it contains also the > document header which we have to discard because we need the table definition > only.
I see. They should have an option for that. But since they don't, it will be easy to write a python script to strip the header. What output format do you use? Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
