Re: excel format: SUPBOOK records

[Michael Meeks <michael nuclecu unam mx>]

Hi Urban,

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Urban Widmark wrote:
> In plugins/excel/ms_excel_read_supporting_wb, around line 3426, it says:
> Is that comment old or is that the current state of gnumeric/excel-plugin
> knowledge? (on this particular record)

	It is fairly recent, and totaly accurate AFAIK. Jody did some work
on inter-workbook bits I think, but there is probably a good way to go. It
looks like there is some support in the parser:

	| '[' BOOKREF ']' SHEETREF '!' CELLREF {
	        $$ = $6;
		$$->u.ref.sheet = $4;
	}

	But it looks like it stops there; sorry.

> If you already know what a SUPBOOK is for, I'll ask a different question.
> How far are plans/implementation of references to data in other
> "workbooks" (files, whatever they might be called) ? It doesn't work for
> me, but then maybe I'm doing something wrong.

	Heh, it just needs someone to work on it :-) if you are interested
we can point you to the code to read etc. Jody is the guy to talk to.

> Almost everything else (that I want) seems to be working fine (the only
> exception I can think of are the missing borders in printouts). Very nice
> work.

	This is Jody's field too, although this may be more difficult than
rendering in the sheet for various reasons.

> (Ok, I haven't tested more than 2 simple sheets, but it still looks very
>  good ... and I don't mean only the excel import :)

	Thank you; I'm glad you like it :-) a lot of people have put a lot
of time into it.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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