Point labels on XY charts for gnumeric (on windows): any news?

[Christian Ritter <ritter stat ucl ac be>]

On 15/10/2006 I asked ...
> 3. Charts (XY): So far, gnumeric does not allow to add labels to 
> individual points on an x-y chart. I would propose to add a labels 
> property to the series object which can be linked to a range on the 
> sheet. This way one can set the labels via another column in the data. 
> This is something "calc" can do, but "Excel" cannot. It would be very 
> useful, though. The icing on the cake would be if one could even control 
> the label format (size, font, color, orientation) via data ranges, but 
> Xmas is still far away.
>   
Jean Brefort answered
> Labels are something which should be implemented when developer becomes
> available; as you wrote we are not at Xmas. Controling the styles via
> data ranges would be quite difficult IMHO and is not planned.
>   
Today I again needed it (labels to points on x-y chart) ... This has 
become one of the main remaining obstacles to using Gnumeric in my day 
to day work and with clients. Is there hope?

Thanks,

Chris