Status of spreadsheet support in IO package for Octave
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This package provides support for reading Excel (XLS, XLSX), OpenDocument
(ODS) and Gnumeric spreadsheet files from Octave.

If you installed the packages recommended by octave-io, the following
interfaces should already be functional:

 * JExcelAPI (JXL): for reading and writing XLS files;

 * LibreOffice (UNO): for reading and writing ODS, XLS, XLSX, SXC, CSV and any
   other file format supported by LibreOffice Calc;

 * Apache POI with OOXML (POI): for reading and writing XLS and XLSX files.

Note that the UNO interface is still experimental. It interacts with running
LibreOffice processes.

There is also a built-in pure Octave interface (OCT) for reading (but not
writing) XLSX, ODS and gnumeric files.

Other interfaces (OpenXLS, ODF Toolkit, JOpenDocument) are not available in
Debian.

You can still manually download and install the corresponding JARs in
/usr/local/share/java, they should be autodetected. The chk_spreadsheet_support
function can help you diagnose problems if any.

More information on spreadsheet support can be found in READ-XLS.html and
READ-ODS.html.

 -- Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>, Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:08:26 +0100
