Ok, good. That's what I was planning on aiming for. I think the "super-set" approach should be no problem. Thanks, Hal On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:42, Jody Goldberg wrote:
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:36:02AM -0800, Hal Eisen wrote:Really? I admit I'm coming a bit late to this party. I had assumed that Gnumeric was trying to help people move from Windows to Linux/BSD, and that file format compatibility was part of that. I get .xls files in email all the time, and it drives me nuts when they don't "look right".The implementation needs to support a super-set of MS Excel. The user interface is another question entirely. We've tried to be compatible to provide people with the 'finger-feel' they expect. Gnumeric's motto is As close to XL as necessary but no closer The interface for conditional formats in Ms Excel is so irritating, and the implementation so limited, that I don't see a need to be similar.
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