On 10/12/20 8:19 PM, William Park via gnumeric-list wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote: >> TL;DR: Avoid csv files if you can. > > Then, is there another format or standard you'd recommend when working > with Gnumeric? It's easy to say don't use CSV, but then what should > people use instead?
That is a super-important question. Every time it gets asked, the answer seems to be "use the configurable text importer". I'm trying to be a good listener. So let me come at the question from a slightly different angle: Suppose I want to configure the importer to do what IMHO the .csv importer should have been doing all along, starting with RFC compliance, and also strictly adhering to the 5 semantic interpretation rules that MW provided. I would be quite happy with that. Specifically, in the context of ssconvert (which is what I care about), how do I configure the importer? The ssconvert manpage says the importer is configurable, but doesn't say how. By way of contrast, it mentions -O for configuring an exporter, but I find no comparable mention of configuring an importer. I'm hoping the required configuration is ridiculously simple, but I need some help getting started. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
