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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:27:16 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> 
> Someone just sent me an Excel file to translate, in Czech, and told me to 
> 'just type in the English in that column'.  The best I could do was xlhmtl 
> (I even have a DOS version) to convert to .htm, and then display the 
> output with Links. (Lynx does not do tables, W3m does not do Czech, and 
> links2 graphical displays Czech without any need to load a font).  But I 
> cannot easily translate in the resulting file in a column.
> 
> Is there some linux program that will import and also export Excel .xls 
> files, that works with Xvesa?  Maybe even in BL3?

    Not in Xvesa, perhaps, but I have got gnumeric from SW7.1 to run happily 
in BL2.   But I have also had to install the whole Gnome suite from SW7.1 to 
do it.

    And I don't know about other languages than English.

Regards,
         Ron 

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