Re: Your automagic screenshots!

[Ben Pfaff]

It's an extraordinarily common feature request, so if there's a
practical way to support direct import then we should consider it.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:26 AM John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> So far as I'm aware, there's no way of importing directly from excel.  You 
> would
> first have to convert the excel file to something else like gnumeric or 
> opendocument
> format.
>
> J'
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:45:32AM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
>      Hi John,
>
>      i just had a look at your automagic screenshots that you take for the 
> documentation. Very nice. This Nina who asked on the mailing list
>
>      https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2022-03/msg00031.html 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2022-03/msg00031.html>
>
>      how to import from Excel mentioned that it would be nice to have a 
> description for this in the manual. I wanted to propose her that she could
>      make such a manual which would currently mean to write the texi code 
> which would require to have a build system running to see the rendered pages. 
> Automagic screenshots would be even more advanced.
>
>      Did you ever propose users just to make some kind of handcrafted 
> tutorial or documentation, provide it in pdf under some CC license and we 
> would publish it on the gnu website?
>
>      Cheers
>
>      Fritz
>
>