Display created docbook

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Tue Sep 29 00:30:00 UTC 2020


On 9/28/20 7:19 PM, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:54:44 -0400
> schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Riki
>>
>>
> The output of ssconvert _is_ docbook compatible. But it contains also the document header which we have to discard because we need the table definition only.

I see. They should have an option for that. But since they don't, it
will be easy to write a python script to strip the header. What output
format do you use?

Riki




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