Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-07 Thread Ganesh Sundaram
On 5/7/2011 1:30 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Neal Becker wrote: No File> Import> Gnumeric here (fedora 14 lyx-2.0.0-0.21.rc3.fc14.x86_64) What am I missing? Maybe Gnumeric. And perhaps LyX 2.0. Liviu After installing Gnumeric, path to its executable must be a

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > No File > Import > Gnumeric here (fedora 14 lyx-2.0.0-0.21.rc3.fc14.x86_64) > > What am I missing? > Maybe Gnumeric. And perhaps LyX 2.0. Liviu

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 6/05/2011 10:26 a.m., Julien Rioux wrote: On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a "no". Please don't do it. There are plenty o

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Julien Rioux
On 05/05/2011 12:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a "no". Please don't do it. There are plenty of spreadsheet programs and if you haven't comp

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Oh, I see, gnumeric will pull ODS or XLS in as well as its own. This is non-intuitive, but I haven't read the manual yet:-)-O el On 5/5/11 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats o

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter > External Material. > > Please advise. > You should see the Gnumeric external material. It supports files saved under Gnumeric, OOo or Excel spreadsheet formats (y

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Liviu, on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter External Material. Please advise. greetings, el On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: >> The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where yo

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:49 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. But I am pretty sure that, when this support is implemented, there will be re

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 7:39 p.m., Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... My request

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> LyX doesn't need to acquire spreadsheet capabilities. I have no wish to >> see it heading down the road of OpenOffice. > > But I am pretty sure that, when this support is implemented, there will > be requests that LyX displays the calculated

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-05-05, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I think I have confused people, perhaps because I used the phrase 'LyX > office suite' (but in quotes -- it was meant with a certain > tongue-in-cheek quality) and mentioned the word spreadsheet. ... > My request was for a button on the table toolbar that

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > I meant something more on these lines: you have a table in LyX with a few > columns of figures; you want the totals of the columns, perhaps a grand > total. The numbers aren't at this point fixed. New data may arise as you > work on your docu

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 5/05/2011 12:32 p.m., Charlie wrote: If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a "no". Please don't do it. There are plenty of spreadsheet programs and if you haven't completed your work in the program you use, why wou

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 04 May 2011 20:32:03 Charlie wrote: > If a vote is being taken on this feature request. > > I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a "no". > > Please don't do it. Context? What are we talking about? Do I really need to research my mailbox to find out? Stev

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Charlie
If a vote is being taken on this feature request. I would rather that it doesn't happen, so please put me down as a "no". Please don't do it. There are plenty of spreadsheet programs and if you haven't completed your work in the program you use, why would you place it into a LyX document and e

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > For a computer with limited memory (1 GB seemed big when I bought it), where > there's a lot of disk activity with multiple programs running, being able to > work in LyX alone would be helpful. > If computer resources are your biggest concer

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 04/05/2011 18:42, Pavel Sanda wrote: Andrew Parsloe wrote: 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 this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics editor

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread David L. Johnson
On 05/04/2011 12:33 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: Yes, but it would be nice to be able to sum a table in LyX without having to fire up Gnumeric or

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Pavel Sanda wrote: i think we should be good at editing text and typesetting. preparing the basic material like drawings, tables, computing numbers etc should do different apps which do it much better then we will ever do. we can create some reasonable binding to them, but th

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Pavel Sanda
Andrew Parsloe wrote: > 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 this is the same as request that we should introduce some 'simple' graphics editor for pictures. after simple editor is

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Jens Nöckel
On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > > > On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe >> wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 4/05/2011 9:59 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: 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. It sure would. (To take matters to extremes, you could even fire up an

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > 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. > It sure would. > (To take matters to extremes, you > could even fire up an external wordprocessor and create a pdf or l

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 4/05/2011 9:18 p.m., Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe 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> xl

Re: Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe 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 > Ex

Feature request: the missing element in the LyX office suite

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Parsloe
Dear LyX developers & users, Now that LyX 2.0 is about to be launched perhaps it is a good time to mention the missing element in the 'LyX office suite'. At present LyX provides the wordprocessor & mathematics editor, beamer (presumably) covers the slide show/presentation side of things, and I