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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2019-02-15 02:22:45 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2019-02-15 05:41:16 +0100
commitf8be928760b390409293b49d276c0de95730f17c (patch)
treefdaaa806b6fe1eb92979d971967e7173907e3f56 /gnu/packages/xml.scm
parent863ab122fcbd16b994b35c71d2e124c0f3aeb915 (diff)
gnu: libxls: Expand synopsis & description.
* gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxls)[synopsis, description]: Expand.
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@@ -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