From: Hannes Wyss Date: 2006-08-18T23:17:23+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Spreadsheet-Excel 0.3.5 released == What is it? Spreadsheet::Excel is a port of John McNamara's Perl module "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel". It allows you to generate Microsoft Excel compatible spreadsheets (in Excel 95 format) on *any* platform. These spreadsheets are viewable with most other popular spreadsheet programs, including Gnumeric. Spreadsheet::Excel was originally written by Daniel J. Berger and is now maintained by Hannes Wyss. == How to get it? gem install spreadsheet-excel (you may have to wait a couple of hours for the mirror-fairy to come around to your neighbourhood..) == Changes: 0.3.5 - 18-Aug-2006 * Instead of making OLEWriter inherit from IO, Spreadsheet::Excel now just delegates the IO method calls to an IO object reference in an instance variable. That way the developer can specify an IO or IO-like object to which OLEWriter will write. This allows developers to use StringIO objects (or any IO-like object). Thanks go to Daniel Amelang for the feature request, the patch, and most of this description. * Implemented a Feature Request by Randal Santia: it is now possible to specify alignment and border as additional values in the configuration-hash passed to Format.new as if alignment= or border= were called. -- Hannes Wyss