Re: Gnumeric 0.76 experiences (long)

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> > Looking at the code for this case I see why it's hard but I'm fairly sure
> > you can recover the same data as Excel. In essence Gnumeric needs to be
> > willing to programatically create invalid formulae (you can type them in
> > already, so it's only a small change). Not a vital 1.0 feature anyway I
> > suppose.
> Not a small change.  Internal data structures assume sanity.  What
> you see on the screen or type on the keyboard have robust checking
> to ensure that only sane things make their way into the core.  Send
> a sample and I'll see what can be done.

 desire.Wouldn't it be possible to create those invalid formulas as 
strings in gnumeric. This would make it quite easy for users to fix them 
if they so  I believe the main cooncern is that currently the 
information hidden in those formulas is completely lost.

Andreas

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