org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi

I am sometimes in need to send my org-table spreadhseets to colleagues
who are using (sigh) excel. I thought sending csv would be enough but it
turns out, 

    -  that sometimes technical inapt people don't know how to open it,

    -  when using a non english language setting say spanish, numbers
       like 3.4 are interpreted as text.

That can be circumvented by sending the spreadheet as ods/xlsx

I did not find any built in function so I came up with two solutions.
One is using gnumeric but then a path must be set to its binaries and
that is platform dependent. The other relies on `org-odt-convert' which
uses in my case LO/OO.

Somebody with better lisp skills might want to generalize the function
to include in a more comfortable way other formats

(defun org-table-export-to-xlsx () 
  (interactive)
  (let* ((source-file  (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name (current-buffer))))
         (csv-file (concat source-file ".csv")))
    (org-table-export csv-file "orgtbl-to-csv")
    (org-odt-convert csv-file "xlsx")))

Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Friday, 16 Jun 2017 at 10:25, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am sometimes in need to send my org-table spreadhseets to colleagues
> who are using (sigh) excel. I thought sending csv would be enough but it
> turns out, 

[...]

> I did not find any built in function so I came up with two solutions.
> One is using gnumeric but then a path must be set to its binaries and
> that is platform dependent. The other relies on `org-odt-convert' which
> uses in my case LO/OO.

Thanks for this.  Works nicely!  Great addition to the repertoire of
useful emacs-lisp snippets.  Would be great to have this incorporated
into org.

If gnumeric (ssconvert) can be an option, that would be great as well.

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Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[edgar]

> Message: 19
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:25:55 +0000
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: [O] org-table export to ods/xlsx etc
> Message-ID: <87fuf0i5zg.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> I am sometimes in need to send my org-table spreadhseets to colleagues
> who are using (sigh) excel. I thought sending csv would be enough but 
> it
> turns out,
I want to join you in that *deep* sigh! and thank you for your 
contribution. I may eventually have to use it.

> (defun org-table-export-to-xlsx ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let* ((source-file  (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name
> (current-buffer))))
>          (csv-file (concat source-file ".csv")))
>     (org-table-export csv-file "orgtbl-to-csv")
>     (org-odt-convert csv-file "xlsx")))

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Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday, 16 Jun 2017 at 10:25, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am sometimes in need to send my org-table spreadhseets to colleagues
>> who are using (sigh) excel. I thought sending csv would be enough but it
>> turns out, 
>
> [...]
>
>> I did not find any built in function so I came up with two solutions.
>> One is using gnumeric but then a path must be set to its binaries and
>> that is platform dependent. The other relies on `org-odt-convert' which
>> uses in my case LO/OO.
>
> Thanks for this.  Works nicely!  Great addition to the repertoire of
> useful emacs-lisp snippets.  Would be great to have this incorporated
> into org.

According to `org-odt-convert-processes', `org-odt-convert-capabilities'
and `org-odt-convert', isn't it already possible?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Saturday, 17 Jun 2017 at 14:54, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

[...]

> According to `org-odt-convert-processes', `org-odt-convert-capabilities'
> and `org-odt-convert', isn't it already possible?

Indeed.  <blush>  Adding this

  (add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "ssconvert %i %o"))
  (setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")

is all that is needed.  As always, why am I surprised? :-)

Thanks.

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Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Uwe Brauer]

   > On Friday, 16 Jun 2017 at 10:25, Uwe Brauer wrote:

   > [...]


   > Thanks for this.  Works nicely!  Great addition to the repertoire of
   > useful emacs-lisp snippets.  Would be great to have this incorporated
   > into org.

Maybe this is even more useful?

(defun org-table-export-to-spreadsheet (arg) 
  "Export org table to varios first to cvs and then via LO/OO (or gnumeric)
to various  spreadsheet  format, the most common are `ods', `xls' and 
`xlsx'."
  (interactive "sFormat: ")
  (let* ((source-file  (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name (current-buffer))))
         (csv-file (concat source-file ".csv")))
    (org-table-export csv-file "orgtbl-to-csv")
    (org-odt-convert csv-file arg)))


   > If gnumeric (ssconvert) can be an option, that would be great as well.

Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Uwe Brauer]

   > Hello,
   > Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:


   > According to `org-odt-convert-processes', `org-odt-convert-capabilities'
   > and `org-odt-convert', isn't it already possible?


Hm I set

(add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "ssconvert %i %o"))
(setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")

But then my function returns

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot convert from csv format to xlsx format?")
  signal(error ("Cannot convert from csv format to xlsx format?"))
  error("Cannot convert from %s format to %s format?" "csv" "xlsx")
  org-odt-do-convert("/home/oub/ALLES/tex/vorlesungen/HG/HGQuim-Num-Estad/Notas/Notas2017/Controles/Rosa/rosa4.csv" "xlsx" nil)
  org-odt-convert("/home/oub/ALLES/tex/vorlesungen/HG/HGQuim-Num-Estad/Notas/Notas2017/Controles/Rosa/rosa4.csv" "xlsx")
  org-export-to-xlsx()
  funcall-interactively(org-export-to-xlsx)
  call-interactively(org-export-to-xlsx nil nil)
  command-execute(org-export-to-xlsx)

   > Regards,

Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Wednesday, 21 Jun 2017 at 13:01, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot convert from csv format
> to xlsx format?")

What does (org-odt-do-reachable-formats "csv") return?

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Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "Eric" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

   > On Wednesday, 21 Jun 2017 at 13:01, Uwe Brauer wrote:
   >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cannot convert from csv format
   >> to xlsx format?")

   > What does (org-odt-do-reachable-formats "csv") return?
Ha thanks

I had to set

(add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "/usr/bin/ssconvert %i %o"))

Otherwise ssconvert was not found.
I reported the misbehavior of LO/OO concerning the coding in the
relevant list. Maybe it is a bug.

[setting is not read] (was: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "Eric" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

    > On Saturday, 17 Jun 2017 at 14:54, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
    > [...]

    >> According to `org-odt-convert-processes', `org-odt-convert-capabilities'
    >> and `org-odt-convert', isn't it already possible?

    > Indeed.  <blush>  Adding this

    >   (add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "ssconvert %i %o"))
    >   (setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")

Odd thing. I put these lines in my org_init.el file byte compile and
restart emacs but then
(org-odt-do-reachable-formats "csv") returns

Nil

I have to explicitly eval the two settings 

(add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "/usr/bin/ssconvert %i %o"))
(setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")


What do I miss? I could use customize of course, but I would like to
understand the problem.

Re: [setting is not read]

[Nick Dokos]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>>>> "Eric" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>     > On Saturday, 17 Jun 2017 at 14:54, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>     > [...]
>
>     >> According to `org-odt-convert-processes', `org-odt-convert-capabilities'
>     >> and `org-odt-convert', isn't it already possible?
>
>     > Indeed.  <blush>  Adding this
>
>     >   (add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "ssconvert %i %o"))
>     >   (setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")
>
> Odd thing. I put these lines in my org_init.el file byte compile and
> restart emacs but then
> (org-odt-do-reachable-formats "csv") returns
>
> Nil
>
> I have to explicitly eval the two settings 
>
> (add-to-list 'org-odt-convert-processes '("gnumeric" "/usr/bin/ssconvert %i %o"))
> (setq org-odt-convert-process "gnumeric")
>

These probably need to be done after loading ox-odt. But the first one should give
an error if org-odt-convert-processes is not defined: are you getting an error at
initialization? Check *Messages*.

>
> What do I miss? I could use customize of course, but I would like to
> understand the problem.
>

-- 
Nick