ODF spreadsheets

[Muthiah Annamalai]

Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> 2008/1/23, Muthiah Annamalai <muthuspost at gmail.com>:
>   
>> kensmith wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday 17 January 2008 12:39, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On 17/01/2008, Mats Hedlund <mats at vcn.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Is there any work being done for import/export to ODF spreadsheets?
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Not that am I aware of, but do you really need it? Can't you use CSV
>>>> format instead?
>>>>         
>
> this is a way to go but
>
>   
>> For anyone interested in doing this work, a good starting point would be
>> look at
>> Gnumeric / Gnome-spreadsheet's OO.o export facilities, and rewrite the
>> same into
>> an OCT file. This will also be license compatible.
>>     
>
> any direct link (aka octave being able to read/write data directly in
> a ods spreadsheet)
> would help by putting octave nearly on par with matlab that can do
> this with excel spreadsheet, a feature that is used by some and
> advertised by mathworks. In Belgium (and many other countries) where
> ODF become standards pushed forward at least in public
> administrations, this could well help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicolas
>
>   
Who will bell the cat? Its a question of developer time I believe.
-Muthu