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6 gnumeric - a GNOME spreadsheet application.
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10 gnumeric [OPTIONS] [files ... ]
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14 Gnumeric is a powerful spreadsheet program created by the GNOME
15 project. Gnumeric intends to compete with commercial spreadsheets by
16 becoming fully compatible with Microsoft Excel(TM) and through the sup‐
17 port of most popular spreadsheet file formats such as Excel(TM), Lotus
18 1-2-3(TM), Applix(TM), Sylk(TM), XBase(TM), Oleo(TM) and OpenOffice.org
19 formats.
20 Gnumeric supports advanced calculations using statistical, financial
22 and database access functions. Plotting data is supported through an
23 incomplete but powerful plotting system. A plugin system extends gnu‐
24 meric , for instance enabling the export of data to the LaTeX
25 \longtable format. Plugins can be used to define custom functionality.
26 A rudimentary scripting API for the Python language exists and will be
27 extended in the near future. Since gnumeric is free software, gnumeric
28 can also be extended directly at the source code level by any competent
29 programmer.
30 The program can be started from the command line as gnumeric or from
32 one of the menus provided by the underlying platform. When started on
33 the command line, gnumeric may be followed by the options listed below
34 and possibly the names of files in various spreadsheet formats which
35 will then be opened immediately. For instance, the command:
36 gnumeric myfile.gnumeric
38 will launch gnumeric and open the file called "myfile.gnumeric". The
40 default gnumeric file format is in extensible markup language (XML)
41 which subsequently has been compressed with gzip.
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45 This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single
46 letter options starting with a single dash (`-') and longer options
47 starting with two dashes (`--').
48 Help options
51 -?, --help Show help message.
52 --usage
54 Displays a brief usage message.
55 Gnumeric options
58 -v, --version
59 Displays the version number of the installed instance of gnu‐
60 meric.
61 --no-splash
63 Start gnumeric without showing the splash screen. The splash
64 screen is normally shown if loading files takes too long.
65 -L, --lib-dir=STRING
67 Set the root library directory to STRING which should be a path‐
68 name.
69 -D, --data-dir=STRING
71 Adjust the root data directory to STRING which should be a path‐
72 name.
73 Options for window placement
76 -g, --geometry=WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF
77 Set the size and position of the first window. All units are in
78 pixels. The X offset is from the left hand side of the screen,
79 the Y offset is from the top of the screen. For example,
80 -g=800x600+20+30 will open a gnumeric window 800 pixels wide by
81 600 pixels high, with the left edge of gnumeric 20 pixels from
82 the left of the screen and the top edge of gnumeric 30 pixels
83 from the top of the screen.
84 --display=DISPLAY
86 X display to use, where DISPLAY has the form machinename:Xdis‐
87 play.Screen. Note that the machine displaying gnumeric must have
88 granted the machine running gnumeric the right to display (see
89 xhost).
90 --screen=SCREEN
93 X screen to use, a more compact form of the functionality
94 described above.
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101 GNOME options
102 --disable-sound
103 Disable sound server usage.
104 --enable-sound
106 Enable sound server usage.
107 --espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT
109 Host:port on which the sound server to use is running.
110 --disable-crash-dialog
112 Disable the bug submission dialog which appears if Gnumeric
113 crashes.
114 GTK options
117 --gdk-debug=FLAGS
118 Gdk debugging flags to set.
119 --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS
121 Gdk debugging flags to unset.
122 --sync Make X calls synchronous.
124 --name=NAME
126 Program name as used by the window manager.
127 --class=CLASS
129 Program class as used by the window manager.
130 --gxid_host=HOST
132 The host on which to contact the gxid daemon. This overrides the
133 GXID_HOST environment variable. This option is only available if
134 GTK+ has been configured with --gdk-target=x11.
135 --gxid_port=PORT
137 The port for the connection to gxid. This overrides the
138 GXID_PORT environment variable. This option is only available if
139 GTK+ has been configured with --gdk-target=x11.
140 --gtk-debug=FLAGS
142 Gtk+ debugging flags to set.
143 --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS
145 Gtk+ debugging flags to unset.
146 --g-fatal-warnings
148 Make all warnings fatal.
149 --gtk-module=MODULE
151 Load an additional Gtk module.
152 Session management options
155 --sm-client-id=ID
156 Specify session management ID.
157 --sm-config-prefix=PREFIX
159 Specify prefix of saved configuration.
160 --sm-disable
162 Disable connection to session manager.
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167 This manual page describes gnumeric version 1.8.
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171 For the list of known gnumeric bugs, or to report new ones please visit
172 http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
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176 ssconvert(1), ssindex(1), ssgrep(1)
177 The Gnumeric Manual
179 Available through the Help menu or online ⟨http://www.gnome.org/
180 projects/gnumeric/doc/gnumeric.shtml⟩.
181 The Gnumeric Homepage
183 ⟨http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/⟩.
184 The GNOME project page
186 ⟨http://www.gnome.org/⟩.
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190 Gnumeric is licensed under the terms of the General Public License
191 (GPL), version 2. For information on this license look at the source
192 code that came with the software or see the GNU project page ⟨http://
193 www.gnu.org/⟩.
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197 The copyright on the gnumeric software and source code is held by the
198 individual authors as is documented in the source code.
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203 Gnumeric
204 Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>
205 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>
206 Morten Welinder <terra@gnome.org>
207 -- and many others. For a more complete list, see the About dialog.
209 This manual page
211 Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
212 Adrian Custer <acuster@gnome.org>
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