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| author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2019-02-15 02:22:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2019-02-15 05:41:16 +0100 |
| commit | f8be928760b390409293b49d276c0de95730f17c (patch) | |
| tree | fdaaa806b6fe1eb92979d971967e7173907e3f56 /gnu/packages/xml.scm | |
| parent | 863ab122fcbd16b994b35c71d2e124c0f3aeb915 (diff) | |
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gnu: libxls: Expand synopsis & description.
* gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxls)[synopsis, description]: Expand.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm index 51f3871218..30b5a25661 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm @@ -1280,10 +1280,12 @@ files. It is designed to be fast and to handle large input files.") ("automake" ,automake) ("libtool" ,libtool))) (home-page "http://libxls.sourceforge.net/") - (synopsis "Read Excel files") + (synopsis "Read binary (.xls) Excel spreadsheet files") (description - "libxls is a C library which can read Excel (xls) files since Excel 97 (the BIFF8 format). -libxls cannot write Excel files.") + "libxls is a C library to read .xls spreadsheet files in the binary OLE +BIFF8 format as created by Excel 97 and later versions. It cannot write them. + +This package also provides @command{xls2csv} to export Excel files to CSV.") (license license:bsd-2))) (define-public freexl |