Re: Where are plugin functionality descriptions?

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort gmail com>]

Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 07:34 -0500, Larry Evans a écrit :
On 03/21/11 07:10, Jim Tarvid wrote:
> > Don't know which plugin you refer to. 
> 
> For example, there's several plugin's with
> whose title's suggest linear programming:
> 
>   GLPK Linear Program Solver interface
>   LPSolve Linear Program Solver interface
>   Linear and integer program _expression_ format (MPS) module
> 
> Under Tools, there's:
> 
>   Solver...
> 
> and under that there's, under Model tab:
> 
>   Algorithm: GLPK or LPSolve
> 
> So, where does:
> 
>    Linear and integer program _expression_ format (MPS) module
> 
> appear?  IOW, there needs to be some documentaion of
> how to invoke these plugin's.

Le lundi 21 mars 2011 à 07:34 -0500, Larry Evans a écrit :
On 03/21/11 07:10, Jim Tarvid wrote:
> > Don't know which plugin you refer to. 
> 
> For example, there's several plugin's with
> whose title's suggest linear programming:
> 
>   GLPK Linear Program Solver interface
>   LPSolve Linear Program Solver interface
>   Linear and integer program _expression_ format (MPS) module
> 
> Under Tools, there's:
> 
>   Solver...
> 
> and under that there's, under Model tab:
> 
>   Algorithm: GLPK or LPSolve
> 
> So, where does:
> 
>    Linear and integer program _expression_ format (MPS) module
> 
> appear?  IOW, there needs to be some documentaion of
> how to invoke these plugin's.

This is a file format that gnumeric can open. The service description starts with "File opener" (look at the Plugin description folder).

> > I found my issue - Times Series
> > Analysis - under Function Reference but the in-program help function is
> > interminably slow to load (well over a minute to load the Time Series

Functions documentation is much more rapidly loaded from the web site at http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/functions.shtml

May be we should avoid using yelp?

Regards,
Jean