slaesvuo/hledger
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

doc: hledger.m4.md: FODS output - describe the advantages over CSV

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Henning Thielemann 2024-10-18 19:50:20 +02:00 committed by Simon Michael
parent 4fe51cb911
commit 0c536da5ff
1 changed files with 15 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

17
hledger/hledger.m4.md
View File

@ -794,8 +794,21 @@ are disabled automatically.
### FODS output ### FODS output
[FODS] is the OpenDocument spreadsheet format used by LibreOffice and OpenOffice. [FODS] is the OpenDocument Spreadsheet format as plain XML,
It is a good format to use if you are exporting to their spreadsheet app. as accepted by LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
If you use their spreadsheet applications,
this is better than CSV because it works across locales
(decimal point vs. decimal comma,
character encoding stored in XML header, thus no problems with umlauts),
it supports fixed header rows and columns,
cell types (string vs. number vs. date),
separation of number and currency
(currency is displayed but the cell type
is still a number accessible for computation),
styles (bold), borders.
Btw. you can still extract CSV from FODS/ODS
using various utilities like `libreoffice --headless` or
[ods2csv](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ods2csv).
[FODS]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument [FODS]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument