From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Debertin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to convert xls to ascii Date: 20 Feb 2003 15:58:35 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6lmlilw.fsf@nodewarrior.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045778831 955 80.91.224.249 (20 Feb 2003 22:07:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18lyqU-0000FH-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:07:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lyp2-0003Hd-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:05:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!gemini.bitstream.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: beb6c95f.news.bitstream.net Original-X-Trace: 1045778424 gemini.bitstream.net 79563 216.243.168.26 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@bitstream.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110450 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6952 Don Saklad writes: > xls isn't mentioned for the converters at > http://preprints.cern.ch/Convert?emailGuide > http://samurajdata.se/~cj/ps.html It isn't terribly emacs-apropos -- I don't think emacs has a way to do this -- but I've had a lot of success with xlhtml: http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml/ Use the -csv option to get something parseable by people. Perhaps it will produce output that csv.el can read; I haven't tried it. Dan -- /^Dan Debertin$/ | airboss@nodewarrior.org | www.nodewarrior.org |