gnumeric(1)

1GNUMERIC(1)                          GNOME                         GNUMERIC(1)
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NAME

6       gnumeric - a GNOME spreadsheet application.
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SYNOPSIS

10       gnumeric [OPTIONS] [files ... ]
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DESCRIPTION

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.
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21       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.
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31       The program can be started from the command line as  gnumeric  or  from
32       one  of  the menus provided by underlying platform. When started on the
33       command line, gnumeric may be followed by the options listed below  and
34       possibly the names files in various spreadsheet formats which will then
35       be opened immediately. For instance, the command:
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37           gnumeric myfile.gnumeric &
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39       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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USER OPTIONS

45       This program follows the usual GNU command  line  syntax,  with  single
46       letter  options  starting  with  a single dash (`-') and longer options
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50   Help options
51       -?, --help Show help message.
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53       --usage
54              Displays a brief usage message.
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57   Gnumeric options
58       -v, --version
59              Displays the version number of the installed  instance  of  gnu‐
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62       --no-splash
63              Start gnumeric without showing the splash screen.
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65       -L, --lib-dir=STRING
66              Set the root library directory to STRING which should be a path‐
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69       -D, --data-dir=STRING
70              Adjust the root data directory to STRING which should be a path‐
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74   Options for window placement
75       -g, --geometry=WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF
76              Set  the size and position of the first window. All units are in
77              pixels. The X offset is from the left hand side of  the  screen,
78              the  Y  offset  is  from  the  top  of  the screen. For example,
79              -g=800x600+20+30 will open a gnumeric window 800 pixels wide  by
80              600  pixels  high, with the left edge of gnumeric 20 pixels from
81              the left of the screen and the top edge of  gnumeric  30  pixels
82              from the top of the screen.
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84       --display=DISPLAY
85              X  display  to use, where DISPLAY has the form machinename:Xdis‐
86              play.Screen. Note the  machine  displaying  gnumeric  must  have
87              granted  the  machine running gnumeric the right to display (see
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92              X screen to use,  a  more  compact  form  of  the  functionality
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ADVANCED OPTIONS

100   Gnumeric options
101       --dump-func-defs=FILE
102              Dumps the function definitions to the file with name FILE.
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104       --dump-func-state=FILE
105              Dumps the function definitions to the file with name FILE.
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107       --debug=LEVEL
108              Enables some debugging functions.
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110       --debug_deps=LEVEL
111              Enables some dependency related debugging functions.
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114              Enables some dependency functions for expression sharing.
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117              Enables some print debugging behavior.
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119       --quit Exit  immediately  after  loading the selected books (useful for
120              testing).
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123   Oaf options
124       --oaf-ior-fd=FD
125              File descriptor on which to print the IOR.
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127       --oaf-activate-iid=IID
128              IID to activate.
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131              Prevent registering of server with OAF.
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134   GNOME options
135       --disable-sound
136              Disable sound server usage.
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138       --enable-sound
139              Enable sound server usage.
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141       --espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT
142              Host:port on which the sound server to use is running.
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144       --disable-crash-dialog
145              Disable the bug submission  dialog  which  appears  if  Gnumeric
146              crashes.
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149   GTK options
150       --gdk-debug=FLAGS
151              Gdk debugging flags to set.
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153       --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS
154              Gdk debugging flags to unset.
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156       --sync Make X calls synchronous.
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158       --name=NAME
159              Program name as used by the window manager.
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161       --class=CLASS
162              Program class as used by the window manager.
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164       --gxid_host=HOST
165              The host on which to contact the gxid daemon. This overrides the
166              GXID_HOST environment variable. This option is only available if
167              GTK+ has been configured with --gdk-target=x11.
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170              The  port  for  the  connection  to  gxid.  This  overrides  the
171              GXID_PORT environment variable. This option is only available if
172              GTK+ has been configured with --gdk-target=x11.
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174       --gtk-debug=FLAGS
175              Gtk+ debugging flags to set.
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177       --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS
178              Gtk+ debugging flags to unset.
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180       --g-fatal-warnings
181              Make all warnings fatal.
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184              Load an additional Gtk module.
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187   Session management options
188       --sm-client-id=ID
189              Specify session management ID.
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VERSION

200       This manual page describes gnumeric version 1.2.
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BUGS

204       For the list of known gnumeric bugs, or to report new ones please visit
205       http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
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LICENSE

221       Gnumeric  is  licensed  under  the  terms of the General Public License
222       (GPL), version 2. For information on this license look  at  the  source
223       code  that  came  with  the  software  or  see  the GNU project page at
224       http://www.gnu.org/.
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COPYRIGHT

228       The copyright on the gnumeric software and source code is held  by  the
229       individual authors as is documented in the source code.
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AUTHORS

234   Gnumeric
235       Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@gnome.org>
236       Miguel de Icaza <miguel@gnome.org>
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238   This manual page
239       Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
240       Adrian Custer <acuster@gnome.org>
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244gnumeric                      September 14, 2003                   GNUMERIC(1)