[gnomeweb-wml] gnumeric: mention ssgrep and spill the odf beans.



commit 669722c4e9668428b2b6dcd02a919d7420652912
Author: Morten Welinder <terra gnome org>
Date:   Fri Feb 5 16:21:48 2010 -0500

    gnumeric: mention ssgrep and spill the odf beans.

 .../announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.shtml         |   22 +++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.shtml b/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.shtml
index d5f7bd5..4839bba 100644
--- a/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.shtml
+++ b/projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.10/gnumeric-1.10.shtml
@@ -17,19 +17,21 @@
 	<li>Error bars in polar and radar plots.</li>
       </ul>
     </li>
-    <li>ODF import has been improved.  Note, that until and unless the syntax
-      and semantics of ODF
-      files are defined, interoperability between any two implementations
-      will be limited.  Five years with no action on that front suggests
-      that it will not happen in the near term.</li>
-    <li>Gnumeric now supports almost all functions in the OpenFormla large
-      function group.  We have different names for a few of them, but remap on
-      load and save from odf files.</li>
+    <li>ODF support has been improved.  Note, that until and unless
+      the syntax and semantics of ODF files are defined, interoperability
+      between any two implementations will be limited.  Five years with no
+      action on that front suggests that it will not happen in the near
+      term. My <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2005/06/16/opendocument-for-spreadsheets/";>five
+	years old assessment</a> still applies.</li>
+    <li>Sheet functions: we have improved function compatibility with Excel,
+      mostly in border cases.  Gnumeric also now supports almost all functions
+      in the OpenFormla large function group.  We have different names for a
+      few of them, but remap on load and save from odf files.</li>
     <li>Faster evaluation: some fairly common sheets with large numbers of
       calls to the HLOOKUP or similar functions, over the same database have
       been improved from "rather slow" to "instant".  Similar improvements have
       been implemented for farms of RANK or PERCENTILE calls.</li>
-    <li>The memory usage for large sheets is significantly down.</li>
+    <li>Memory usage for large sheets is significantly down.</li>
     <li>The statistical analysis tools have been improved and
       there are quite a few new ones, for example:
       <ul>
@@ -42,6 +44,8 @@
     </li>
     <li>Support for sheet objects (lines, arrows, widgets, ...)
       has been improved.</li>
+    <li>New utility: <em>ssgrep</em> allows searching collections of spreadsheet
+      files in a manner similar to how <em>grep</em> searches text files.</li>
   </ul>
 
   <h3>Requirements</h3>



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