Re: Gnumeric examples

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:35:29AM +0200, Grabau Katrin wrote:
> I  am trying to compile a gnumeric spreadsheet file, that will later  be
> serialised using cocoon to excel file format. 
I don't quite understand.  Why not just save in excel format
directly ?

> Does anyone have any examples for me?
There are a few sample files in gnumeric/samples and in
gnumeric/templates.  I do not recall if any of them use the features
you mention below, but it should be easy to run gnumeric and
generate a test file.

>  I have a special problem in trying to define a merged region. I tried
> using the <gmr:MergedRegions> tag, but it doesn' t work.
We haven't had any bug reports on this so I suspect your code my be
having problems.

> On the other hand I have had a problem to find a gnumeric code for the
> vertical alignment similar to gnumeric code 64 (center across selection)
> for the horizontal alignment.
There is no vertical equivalent to the horizontal 'center across selection'
The easiest way to handle this would be to read gnumeric/src/style.h
and gnumeric/src/xml-io.c

Good Luck
    Jody