Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

[Richmond Mathewson]

If you could find a way to export a tab-delimited RTF file from your 
spreadsheet program
you might be laughing.

Richmond.

On 16/1/2018 10:54 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> Open Office can read Excel files and successfully export them to .html 
> preserving ALL formatting!
>
> As Open Office is open source code . . . .
>
> https://www.openoffice.org/
>
> I have just imported a styled .html file exported from an Open Office 
> Spreadsheet into a textField in LiveCode 7.1.4
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 16/1/2018 10:32 pm, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote:
>> In the Excel Lib, the command XCEL_Range_FontStyle_Get is returning
>> the style of the whole cell or range. We have no function to read the
>> style of each char, at this moment.
>> However, both VBA and AppleScript are offering this possibility, so
>> this is a function we can add. A possible solution would consist to
>> explore the style of each chars in a cell, then return the result in
>> html to have it directly usable in LiveCode. I'm not sure of the
>> performances of this approach, though. It will depend on how many
>> cells the sheet have and how many text each cells are containing.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>  wrote:
>>> Ben,
>>>
>>> i am uising Spreadlib and Excel Libary. Both do not take care for text format.
>>> At least i am not aware of it.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthias Rebbe
>>> Tel +49 5741 310000
>>> ‌https://matthiasrebbe.eu  <https://matthiasrebbe.eu/>‌
>>>
>>>> Am 16.01.2018 um 19:10 schrieb Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com  <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
>>>>
>>>> I'm aware that there are a couple of libraries floating around for reading Excel documents - do any of them allow the formatting of runs of text within cells to be read? I want to import some data where some of the text in a cell may contain some parts which are in italics or bold. Are there existing libraries that support this use?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ben
>>>>
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