From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Harkins Subject: Re: Use babel to import table data from OpenDocument spreadsheets? Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:19:01 +0800 Message-ID: <87ip0j5f8q.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> References: <87k3l9kq78.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> <878v1pvybk.fsf@gmail.com> <87y59p591f.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> <87y59p80b3.fsf@gmail.com> <87vc4s5q0o.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwjzs-0004CQ-1a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:19:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwjzq-0006ev-Ka for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:19:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22e]:39379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uwjzq-0006ek-8E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:19:10 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f174.google.com with SMTP id 10so5891346pdc.33 for ; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dlm-A6200.gmail.com ([219.136.4.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id iq3sm20868231pbb.20.2013.07.09.19.19.07 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:19:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vc4s5q0o.wl%jamshark70@dewdrop-world.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: orgmode At Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:35:51 +0800, James Harkins wrote: > Anyway, I'm not convinced that org-odt-convert would meet my needs anyway. It will have to be a multi-worksheet file, and I'll have to extract just one or two of the worksheets. The macro might be the way to go. I've made a bit more progress with this. I found a utility, unoconv[1], which I can persuade to produce a tab-separated export of the first worksheet of an ODS document. That much should work for my needs -- I can reserve the first worksheet for the data to be published, and put all the calculations in other sheets. I'm not sure how to import this as an org table. I found org-table-import, but it seems that this must insert a table into a buffer and then convert to org-table format in the buffer. I don't know how to integrate that with babel. If I set ":exports results," should I assume then that the code block should return a string consisting of the org-formatted table? - Or, do I have to say ":exports none" and do some save-excursion magic with moving the point to the right place before calling org-table-import? (That's probably okay for this small-scale usage, but it would be slicker to put a #+CALL in the right location.) - Or, do I have to write my own lisp function to format the table as a string? The goal is that I should be able to do C-c C-e h h from the org document, and babel will run a short emacs-lisp block to invoke unoconv (producing a CSV file on disk) and then insert the table under the right heading. Thanks, hjh [1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/unoconv