Re: How to prevent Gnumeric from overwriting the same file by different gnumeric instances

2018-03-22 Thread Dave Jennings
Is there a reason that the patch attached to that bug wasn't applied? Dave. On 23/03/18 09:10, Morten Welinder wrote: There currently isn't although there was some discussion about it a long while ago, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334024 I guess at least we ought t

gnumeric spreadsheet newbie questions

2017-12-07 Thread Dave Stevens
ference, or [perhaps hand-holding off-line.] The F1 help in my copy of gnumeric 1.12.28 gives an error message. Dave -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war,

Re: gnumeric 1.12.28 questions

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 13:48:08 -0700 Dave Stevens wrote: > I have a spreadsheet with about 20 columns and 8700 rows. The first > two rows are headers and I'd like to format them to not scroll while > I'm scanning the lower rows. I don't know how to do this so any > advi

gnumeric 1.12.28 questions

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Stevens
ge saying, "The URI ‘ghelp:gnumeric’ does not point to a valid page." Any help fixing this would be welcome too. TIA Dave -- Reporter to Mahatma Ghandi after his tour of east London "What do you think of western civilization, Mr. Ghandi?" Ghandi - &qu

gnumeric website error

2016-07-14 Thread Dave Stevens
on the page at gnumeric.org is a broken link: http://www.csdassn.org/software_reports/gnumeric.pdf with link text "researchers" Dave -- Reporter to Mahatma Ghandi after his tour of east London "What do you think of western civilization, Mr. Ghandi?" Ghandi - "I think

Re: proven! bright screens make us sick; please implement black-background viewing option as in excel and calc

2013-05-22 Thread Dave Stevens
enough to just reverse colors (like a photo negative) and keep the printing as if one worked with a bright-background screen. as offered by pdf viewers in linux and windows... best marc __ this might work for you: http://stereopsis.com/flux/ Dave

Format Painter

2012-03-26 Thread Dave Harris
Hi, I have looked back in the archives and noticed that the equivalent of Excel's Format Painter has often been mooted - Has Gnumeric now got this option (I can't see it) Regards Dave ___ gnumeric-li

Re: IEEE 754 compliance

2008-05-13 Thread Dave
The 754 standard is being updated and the result is being voted on now, I think. It's called 754r and can be found on the web. 16-bit and 128-bit floating point formats are what led me to it. Dave Feustel On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0400, Prof J C Nash wrote: >There are some r

Re: Increasing number of rows in Gnumeric

2006-10-31 Thread Dave Stevens
and > would not know a C compiler if it bit me. Can someone help with this? > Thank-you in advance. Ken Let's see if I've got this right, you want 4,294,967,296 rows, right? What sort of computer do you plan to run this on? Dave -- "How are nations ruled and led into wa

Re: Why would you go and do a thing like this ?

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Feustel
On Friday 26 August 2005 09:53, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:07:30AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Friday 26 August 2005 08:59, Jody Goldberg wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:04:08AM -0500, Rob Ristroph wrote: > > > > > > > &

Re: Why would you go and do a thing like this ?

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Feustel
e wondering > about. I don't see a gtk version listed at gnumeric.org. From where can the gtk version be downloaded? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootk

Re: inconsistant panel icon behaviour

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 25 August 2005 12:52, Morten Welinder wrote: > I don't think gnumeric is involved in the panel's operation at all. > In other words, you will need to talk to whoever made the panel. > > Morten > You are correct, of course. I have another panel issue to bring up when I discover the cor

inconsistant panel icon behaviour

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Feustel
The default panel icon displays a generic message instead of 'gnumeric' when moused-over (all the other icons display similar generic program identifiers as well). When, via icon prooperties I change the mouse-over message to 'gnumeric', the icon is changed from the gnumeric icon to a generic ic

Re: 1 or 50 spreadsheets per file

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Feustel
ts. > > FG > > > I think it would be faster and more practical to have a machine per > spreadsheet > instead of > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:35:11 -0500 Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have 50 vending machines for which I want to rlog ca

1 or 50 spreadsheets per file

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Feustel
I have 50 vending machines for which I want to rlog cash income. Would I be better off with 1 file per machine or with all 50 spreadsheets in a single file? Or does it make no difference with gnumeric in terms of file loading/saving speed? Thanks ___ g

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:00 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:01:48PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:41 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:30:21PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:41 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:30:21PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > > > > Sounds like another bug in the BSD package. > > > > I have worked my way through my printing problems > What was the solution

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 07:02 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:43:16PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:57 pm, Richard Bumby wrote: > > > This has been around and documented since at least version 1.0.8. > > >  Consul

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 07:01 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:41:27PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:57 pm, Richard Bumby wrote: > > > This has been around and documented since at least version 1.0.8. > > >  Consul

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:57 pm, Richard Bumby wrote: > This has been around and documented since at least version 1.0.8. >  Consult the manual for details on entering data in many cells > simultaneously or autofilling. On my system clicking on help and then contents generates an error mess

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:57 pm, Richard Bumby wrote: > This has been around and documented since at least version 1.0.8. >  Consult the manual for details on entering data in many cells > simultaneously or autofilling. I have found so far my experience with Excel stands me in good stead wrt

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 04:29 pm, Uri David Akavia wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > How is date arithmetic done in Gnumeric? > > I want to put a date in a cell and have 6 > > incremental dates generated in successive > > cells in the row. So I need a function that &g

Re: Multi-line Headers

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:56 pm, Morten Welinder wrote: > There seems to be no reasonable way to doing that, but at least there is an > unreasonable way: > > Enter the text in a cell, using Alt-Enter to seperate lines. Select > the whole text in > the edit line, and select Copy. The paste it

Re: Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:48 pm, Morten Welinder wrote: > In A1, enter 2005-06-21 > In A2, enter =A1+1 > > Dates are just numbers formatted to look like dates. > > Morten This works on sheet 1 and fails on sheet 2 in cells with formatting identical to sheet 1. On sheet 2 I get I get ###. On

Date arithmetic

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
date/time functions. Is there a straightforward way to do this? Thanks, Dave Feustel ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Multi-line Headers

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Feustel
How do I set up multi-line headers in headers and footers? Thanks, Dave Feustel ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Re: Another gnumeric printing problem

2005-06-17 Thread Dave Feustel
3.7 and a newer version of gnumeric. Dave Feustel ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:39 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:19:49PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 05:07 pm, Adrian Custer wrote: > > > Hello again, > > > > > > If you can't get gnumeric working on OpenBSD,

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 07:40 pm, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Tue, 2005-14-06 at 18:19 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 05:07 pm, Adrian Custer wrote: > > > Hello again, > > > > > > If you can't get gnumeric working on OpenBSD,

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 05:07 pm, Adrian Custer wrote: > Hello again, > > If you can't get gnumeric working on OpenBSD, gnumeric works on OpenBSD, The version that comes with 3.6 just has a lot of bugs in the print-to-pdf routines. > why don't you install one of the linuxes? I will only ru

Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Feustel
business related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. Dave Feustel ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Re: Another gnumeric printing problem

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 05:11 pm, Richard Bumby wrote: > Programs like Adobe reader and xpdf that view the files allow the file > to be printed from the viewer. The reason that I print with lpr is that I have a very hard time reading the text in the print dialogs in gnumeric and in xpdf (my eyes

Re: Another gnumeric printing problem

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 04:19 pm, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-06 at 16:05 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Thursday 09 June 2005 02:55 pm, Morten Welinder wrote: > > > > To reiterate, the entire gnumeric print dialog is buggy, > > > > buggy, buggy

Re: Do Customized Headers/Footers work?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 03:00 pm, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > Did you allocate space for them? You do that on the left of the same tab > as the specification of the customized headers. BINGO! Thanks! Dave ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeri

Re: Do Customized Headers/Footers work?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 03:00 pm, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > Did you allocate space for them? No. Didn't occur to me that I had to, but now that you mention it, I think you may have identified the problem. > You do that on the left of the same tab > as the specification of the customized heade

Re: Another gnumeric printing problem

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 02:45 pm, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > It would also be interesting if you ould post some screen shots of those > "buggy" dialogs, so that we can tell which ones you are in fact running. I would do this if I knew how. The various dialogs each are different. Some have an 'ap

Re: Another gnumeric printing problem

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 02:40 pm, Tino Meinen wrote: > I suggest for you to try one of the live linux distributions containing > a recent gnumeric (kanotix has gnumeric 1.5.x) and see if you still have > printing problems on such a system. Excellent idea! Any specific recommendations? ___

Re: Do Customized Headers/Footers work?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 02:58 pm, Morten Welinder wrote: > It works fine for me.  It probably works fine for everyone but you. I am beginning to have concerns about how gnumeric code may have been modified by OpenBSD developers for installation on Openbsd. > Please use bugzilla.  Attach a genera

Re: Another gnumeric printing problem

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 02:55 pm, Morten Welinder wrote: > > To reiterate, the entire gnumeric print dialog is buggy, > > buggy, buggy. The rest of gnumeric is working well for me. > > That is what you say.  And say again.  And again.  It is not useful! > I really wish you would back it up with a

Do Customized Headers/Footers work?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
I set data in the File/Page Setup/Headers-Footers/customise dialogs, but that data does not appear in the print preview or print to pdf file output. What else do I need to do to make the customized headers/footers work? Thanks, Dave Feustel ___ gnumeric

Re: Another gnumeric printing problem

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
buggy. The rest of gnumeric is working well for me. Unfortunately, I use a lot of hardcopy records every day on my delivery route so the print problems are a serious impediment. > Also lprm might be useful for you for the next little while :) > > Stephan > > On 6/9/05, Dave Feustel

Re: multiple windows in gnumeric?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:53 pm, David Stanaway wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 12:33 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > Gnumeric is growing on me :-) > > > > Is there a way to have two separate gnumeric windows > > of the same or different spreadsheets simultaneousl

Re: multiple windows in gnumeric?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:58 pm, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > please let us know which dialogs cause you grief. There are only very > few truely modal dialogs in Gnumeric. Most only block the associated > spreadsheet window. By far the most buggy dialog is the 'save-as' in print to pdf file. Ther

Re: multiple windows in gnumeric?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
s well imho.) I read the manual about this and got the impression that copy and paste works, but I want to either link to the data or use cells in the external spreadsheet in formulas in the active spreadsheet. Is that possible? Thanks, Dave Feustel ___

multiple windows in gnumeric?

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
Gnumeric is growing on me :-) Is there a way to have two separate gnumeric windows of the same or different spreadsheets simultaneously in unix-based systems? Related - Is it possible for one spreadsheet to access data in cells in a different spreadsheet (file)? Thanks, Dave

highlighting two columns with one click

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Feustel
the spreadsheet. Thanks, Dave Feustel ___ gnumeric-list mailing list gnumeric-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list

Re: 'Production Ready'? Not Exactly

2005-06-08 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 01:46 pm, Jody Goldberg wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:32:01AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 June 2005 08:45 am, Morten Welinder wrote: > > > but bugzilla is really the way to go. > > > > I'll give it a shot. My d

Re: 'Production Ready'? Not Exactly

2005-06-07 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 08:45 am, Morten Welinder wrote: > but bugzilla is really the way to go. I'll give it a shot. My disk setup does not currently have a large enough /usr partition to work on system stuff, but I have compiled a number of userland programs to run on OpenBSD. I started work on

Re: 'Production Ready'? Not Exactly

2005-06-07 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 08:22 am, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-06 at 08:20 +0200, Lutz Müller wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 00:40 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > Two other nits are that gnumeric defaults to A4 and there does not > > > seem to be a co

Re: print problems with gnumeric (if win32)

2005-06-06 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 06 June 2005 09:09 pm, coralline algae wrote: > I couldnt tell from the note if the platform is windows but since I have > never had problems with printing on linux, I will take a stab and "assume" > it is windows. Sorry about that. My platform is OpenBSD. I walked away from Windows 3+ y

Re: 'Production Ready'? Not Exactly

2005-06-06 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 06 June 2005 08:22 pm, Morten Welinder wrote: > > I have to conclude that no one at gnome > > actually prints much with this spreadsheet program. > > It's hard to figure out exactly what is broken for you. If it is something > specific, you might want to file a detailed bug report at >

'Production Ready'? Not Exactly

2005-06-06 Thread Dave Feustel
I have to conclude that no one at gnome actually prints much with this spreadsheet program. Don't get me wrong, this program is off to a good start, but until the whole printing process has been polished more, it's not production ready. Dave Feustel _