Re: Wkbk/environment Preferences?

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:47:22PM -0400, David J. Braden wrote:
> Are there any plans to work user-defined preferences to the project? 
> E.g., how calculations are handled (automatic or manual), convention 
> used for Dates, other stuff one sees in commercial packages.

There has been a fair amount of work on this in the development
branch.
eg
    manual recalc is now available.

If by date convention you mean 'd/m/y vs m/d/y' that is already
supported in 1.0.x via the locale.  If that is not what you meant
can you give me an example ?
 
> Where can I find out about the direction of the project, 
> development-wise?
At the lowest level the files BUGS and TODO give some overview of
targets, but no dates.

> Oh, kudos to the folks who implemented stdev, var, binomdist, and 
> similar functions: they go far in fixing things within Excel that are 
> still buggy, after all these years. (sheesh, sounds like a song...)
Thanks Morten, Andreas, and the R project.