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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,08:19 QUOTE

I have two questions concerning siag office:

1. As Chris was kind enough to tell me, siag comes with antiword, which I really like. Still pathetic writer doesn't seem to have an import filter for M$-word documents, or have I missed it? I know how to use antiword from command line, but I haven't figured out how (or if) this can be taken advantage of in pathetic writer. Anybody knows?

2. Siag spreadsheets, which seems like quite a powerful tool (!), seems to use gnuplot for plotting graphs. Now, if I use gnuplot.dsl, which I was happy to see included as an extension, I cannot get this to work. If I use the gnuplot.dsl, it seems to install differently from if I apt-got it on a hd-install, meaning that you cannot just type 'gnuplot' in a commandline to start it, you have to type '/opt/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot', or something like that. Is that a reason why siag spreadsheets cannot use gnuplot for plotting graphs, or is there a workaround?

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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,09:47 QUOTE

On the first question, I wonder if you could have an "Import .doc" item under the "File" menu to do this. Maybe this would be similar to adding a button in emelfm? This is starting to get past my comprehension! I might take a look today.

Probably a question for someone like roberts or one of the many other brilliant people in this forum.  :)

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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,10:52 QUOTE

I looked through the pwriter menu and under plugins there is an import feature that lists many file formats so this appears to be promising. I can't seem to find a config file anywhere for pwriter where you could possibly add menu options.

Editing this post because I found this

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Would someone be willing to help us decipher this? I cannot find the file that it references on my system. My PWriter says 3.5.7 so maybe we need an upgraded version to make these changes?

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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,11:52 QUOTE

I read through this document, and I understood something, while also understanding that this would also require a kind of knowledge that I don't posess (yet) to fix. But I looked at the dummy.scm file, and therein might lie the answer two my question #2. It says (as far as I understood) that it calls upon Gnuplot with the command 'gnuplot -geometry ....'. And if you try typing 'gnuplot' on the commandline in dsl (when using gnuplot.dsl) that won't give you gnuplot. You have to type /opt/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot. So that could be the reason why the plotting utility doesn't work in dsl. (Or at least I haven't managed to make it work. If someone else has please tell me how!)

It should also be possible to create an antiword-plugin in order to import .doc files, at least so it seems to me. But I would need someones' help in order to get me further on this...

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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,11:58 QUOTE

It sounds like if we can find this elusive config file, we could solve these issues and maybe add some more interesting options! :;):

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