The mtCellEdit Handbook

• 1. Legal

• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1 Life Before mtCellEdit
  • 2.2 Project Genesis
  • 2.3 General Philosophy
  • 2.4 Development Timeline

• 3. System Administrator Notes
  • 3.1 Dependencies
  • 3.2 Compilation
  • 3.3 Installation
    • 3.3.1 Program man Pages
  • 3.4 Uninstalling
  • 3.5 Package Management
    • 3.5.1 Local Installation

• 4. User Notes
  • 4.1 Basic Concepts
    • 4.1.1 The Book
    • 4.1.2 The Sheet
    • 4.1.3 The Cell
  • 4.2 Running mtCellEdit for the first time
    • 4.2.1 Program Preferences
    • 4.2.2 Selecting a Font
  • 4.3 User Interface
  • 4.4 The Clipboard
  • 4.5 Operations
    • 4.5.1 Sorting
    • 4.5.2 Insertion and Deletion
    • 4.5.3 Recalculation
    • 4.5.4 Exporting Sheet Output
  • 4.6 Graphs
    • 4.6.1 Creating a Graph from scratch
    • 4.6.2 General Workflow
    • 4.6.3 Exporting a Graph

• 5. Developer Notes
  • 5.1 Example Programs
    • 5.1.1 mtNetLog
    • 5.1.2 mtRaft
  • 5.2 Porting and Hacking mtCellEdit
  • 5.3 Command Line Examples
    • 5.3.1 awk
      • 5.3.1.1 mtNetLog Queries
      • 5.3.1.2 Splitting fixed width text files
      • 5.3.1.3 Removing all spaces
      • 5.3.1.4 Removing all leading and trailing spaces
      • 5.3.1.5 Creating fixed width text files
    • 5.3.2 unzip
    • 5.3.3 zcat
    • 5.3.4 tr
      • 5.3.4.1 Changing Field Separators
  • 5.4 cedutils

• 6. mtCedCLI
  • 6.1 Commands
  • 6.2 Book File Types
  • 6.3 Graph Output Types
  • 6.4 Sheet Output Types
  • 6.5 Sheet Types
  • 6.6 Cell Border Codes
  • 6.7 Sorting Expressions
  • 6.8 Shell Scripts
    • 6.8.1 Putting Several Sheets into a Book
    • 6.8.2 Extracting Sheets From a Book

• A. Miscellaneous
  • A.1 Shortcuts
    • A.1.1 Keyboard Shortcuts
    • A.1.2 Mouse Shortcuts
  • A.2 Supported File Types
    • A.2.1 CED Files
    • A.2.2 TSV Files
    • A.2.3 Ledger Files
    • A.2.4 CSV Files
  • A.3 Functions
  • A.4 Cell Formats
  • A.5 Error Codes
  • A.6 Limitations
    • A.6.1 Localization
    • A.6.2 Spreadsheet File Formats
    • A.6.3 Dates
    • A.6.4 Numbers
  • A.7 Graph Language
    • A.7.1 Conceptual Outline
    • A.7.2 Page Layout
    • A.7.3 Graph Instructions and Attributes
    • A.7.4 Default Attribute Values
  • A.8 Preferences
    • A.8.1 Cell
    • A.8.2 Sheet
    • A.8.3 Book
    • A.8.4 State
  • A.9 File Handling
    • A.9.1 File Locks (RWL & RO)
    • A.9.2 Saving (Temporary File)
  • A.10 Historic Design Choices
    • A.10.1 Font Rendering

• B. The History of this Document

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