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Subject: Re: [office] Formulas
Patrick Durusau wrote:
Greetings!
There was extensive discussion of formulas during the call in session
at the ODF summit.
Curious if there is a listing of the known problems with Excel?
Thinking that such information, assuming that the TC undertakes work in
the area, could be usefully contributed to the TC as a background
document.
Hope everyone is having a great day!
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
David A. Wheeler's OpenFormula Project is back up and running, and
making significant progress. They have spent a good deal of time
building formula profiles and analyzing syntax for Excel, OOo Calc,
KOffice, and Gnumeric. Since OASIS ODF TC member Jody Goldberg is very
active in that process, perhaps he can answer your "Excel" question
exactly.
You might also want to check out the ODF
OpenFormula Wiki for more information. And there is a very active
OpenFormula-discuss mailing list
at:
OpenFormula-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openformula-discuss
No doubt the OpenFormula project could use some Lotus 123 expertise
(hint hint :). I also noticed today David
Berlind's blog covering Dan Bricklin's WikiCalc project. Ever the
loyal OpenDocument aficionado, David points out the importance of
standardizing on OpenDocument. He also points out that Dan Bricklin
has in the past complained about the lack of OpenDocument tools and
utilities:
<Berlind>"(Regarding) .. the WikiCalc file, you can see by
its references to spreadsheet cells how
heavily WikiCalc is orchestrated around a spreadsheet framework. What
that means — and what Bricklin has confirmed — is that there's no
reason that the OpenDocument Format (a format that includes
spreadsheets) can't also be a native format that WikiCalc can work
with. Bricklin says he's just waiting for the same thing that a lot of
other developers of potentially OpenDocument-compliant applications are
waiting for: a library of development tools that does the heavy
lifting that must be done in order to add such compliance to an
application." </Berlind>
ODF has initiated a "Development
tools" Project, led by J. David Eisenberg, He has written a number
of OpenDocument Utilities, as a set of Java classes
for manipulating OpenDocument files. This includes extracting metadata
information from ODF files. Hopefully this might serve as a useful
starting point other developers can join and build on. Dan Bricklin's
concerns are right on target, and if we can respond, the growth of the
OpenDocument ecosystem will no doubt accelerate.
Hope this helps,
~ge~
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