siag office

Forum: Apps
Topic: siag office
started by: reidar

Posted by reidar on Sep. 16 2004,08:19

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?

-r

Posted by clivesay on Sep. 16 2004,09:47

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.

Chris

Posted by clivesay on Sep. 16 2004,10:52

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

< Siag Plugins >

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?

Chris

Posted by reidar on Sep. 16 2004,11:52

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...

-r

Posted by clivesay on Sep. 16 2004,11:58

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

Chris

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 16 2004,12:01

As for the gnuplot problem, you could solve it one of four ways:

(1) Change "gnuplot -geometry" to "/opt/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot -geometry" in the dummy file.

(2) Add a symlink to /opt/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot and place it in your /usr/bin directory.

(3) Add /opt/gnuplot/bin to your PATH environment variable, or to a shell wrapper for siag office.

(4) Recombine the gnuplot extension so that it installs to /usr/bin instead of /opt/gnuplot/bin (least preferred option).

Posted by clivesay on Sep. 16 2004,13:01

CB -

Any idea where these elusive config files are? Do we have to manually create them? I am guessing one exists to house the existing plugins?

Unfortunately, I have hit the wall with my Linux knowledge on this subject!

reidar - look at this link. I am guessing this is an add-on? I do not have pw in front of me to check it out. < Word into PW >

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 17 2004,01:46

Well, according to the online documentation, the plugin config files are located in $SIAGHOME/plugins so my guess is somewhere like /usr/local/siag/plugins or somewhere like that. I'm not sure exactly and I don't have it installed right now.

Posted by reidar on Sep. 17 2004,06:31

I have seen this also Chris, and ... well there seems to be a possibility for importing word-files. I cannot figure out how though. What I find odd is that it seems to use wv to import word (according to this website), and not antiword, which is already present. Why is antiword there if you cannot use it?

-r