'''[http://www.openoffice.org/%|%OpenOffice]''' is an [Open Source%|%open-source] suite of programs that includes a word processor, [Category Spreadsheet%|%spreadshet], presentation, drawing, database, and math program. As such, it is an alternative to [Microsoft Office], and is specifically designed as a free replacement for it. It can read and write most [Microsoft Office] formats.
** See Also **
[Tcl & OpenOffice -translation from the French]:
** Documentation **
[https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12572/OpenDocument-v1.0-os.pdf%|%Open Document Format for Office Applications] ,1.0 ,2005-05-01:
[http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odfdom/index.html%|%odfdom: The OpenDocument API]:
** Misc **
[MHo] has been using '''OpenOffice''' for as long as he can think (beginning
with '''StarOffice for MSDOS'''...) and hardly ever had problems with it.
One thing that could have been made better: OpenOffice is using a [Basic]
dialect for programming. It seems to me that people have fun always reinventing
the wheels ;-) Why didn't they use [Tcl], ready for embedding in every
application as its perfect macro language? ([RS]: See [tcluno] for that...)
But the situation of OpenOffice seems to be comparable with [Tcl]'s: the bosses
responsible for buying software tend to prefer Microsoft Office as they tend to
ignore [Tcl] ("Tcl? what's that? never heard... let us better use some 20 Gig
compilers and runtimes with 10.000 dll's... and let us only use Microsoft tools
because the other ones are sometimes buggy... (and free of charge ;-)" -
hahahahaha).
Time for better marketing, I think!
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[wdb] True spoken, but the main reason for taking B****C is probably compatibility with other docs (older OOo, other MS docs).
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Does anyone know of any resources explaining how to write/create an open office
spreadsheet (.ods) using tcl?
I have imported data using Mk4tcl but would like to avoid the intermediate step
of exporting to an excel file format using the above.
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[SRIV] 2010-09-18: I wrote a quick .ods writer, i'll post it on the wiki:
[Creating an OpenOffice Spreadsheet in pure Tcl]
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[Janka] 2024-03-26: A quick hack I needed for some larger project, [Reading an OpenOffice Spreadsheet with tDOM]
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