Display created docbook

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

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.

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