Subject says /almost/ all.

I've added some scripts to the IO package for writing ODS spreadsheet
files using the java package and ODF toolkit. (Preliminary support using
jOpenDocument (also java-based) is also included but yet only of limited
use.)
Reading ODS was already possible.

As it stands it works fairly reliably but the underlying java stuff may
be a bit fragile on Windows (see other posting). On Linux I didn't hit 
any problems yet.

An issue to be aware of is that ODS has dedicated value types for dates
and times, while octave has not. This is quite unlike Excel spreadsheets
where dates are essentially numerical data formatted as dates.
Reading data/time from ODS spreadsheets is OK (they are converted to
octave datenums) but for the other way round there is no reliable solution.
Actually I did implement writing dates to ODS (that's just 10 lines of
code) but as there's no way yet to distinguish numerical data and
date/time data in an octave cell array that code is currently a bit
pointless.

Anyway, as far as spreadsheet processing goes I suppose octave is
presently a bit more advanced than the competition ;-)

Best wishes,

Philip

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