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Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?


From: Jambunathan K
Subject: Re: [O] Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets?
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 19:49:43 +0530
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

M-x org-odt-convert RET

or

(org-odt-convert ......)


James Harkins <address@hidden> writes:

> Just wondering if anyone out there has some magic code snippets that
> will automatically bring in data from a LibreOffice spreadsheet during
> HTML export.
>
> I think I could save, by hand, the required worksheets out of the ods
> file into separate CSVs, and then write an emacs-lisp Babel block to
> import the table from file -- presumably this would run the lisp
> function at export time.
>
> But it would be so much slicker if something could go into the ods
> file directly and return the results in org table format. If somebody
> has already done something like this, it would save me quite a bit of
> time.
>
> If not, I would have to weigh my available time (not much), the time
> it would take to implement (maybe not extremely difficult, but not
> trivial either, especially if it involves digging through LibreOffice
> library documentation) and the weekly time I would save by just
> hitting C-e h h, instead of doing another manual process before C-e h
> h.
>
> (Or possibly an alternative would be to write a macro in LibreOffice
> to write the CSV files and run that from the commandline as part of
> the org export process.)
>
> Thanks -- this is just, no harm in asking. Otherwise I'll deal with it some 
> other way.
>
> hjh



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