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Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by frenchyatwork »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #45
j1elo wrote: post #33

For the last 3 years I've been printing several copies of the Compact Calendar by David Seah [1]. It's as its name implies a compact form calendar that spans the whole year in a single page, and leaves enough side space to annotate stuff as needed. It's very cool and useful, although it would be nice having an open-source based version (i.e. LibreOffice), for those of us that don't have an MS Office license... [1]: h…

What do you mean “open source”? XLS is the (previously proprietary) format used by older versions that’s (basically) just serialized structs. XLS X (which I see here) is the ZIP/XML based version based on an open standard[0][1]. LibreOffice opens those just fine from my experience; It’s the older binary format that LibreOffice can screw up with formatting. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML [1]: ECM…

Perhaps things have gotten better, but OOXML is not an open format by the normal usage of the word (text based does not mean open). OOXML was rushed through the standardization process, and was entirely created by one vendor (Microsoft).

Microsoft doesn't even bother to support the OOXML format completely, as the Wikipedia article notes.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by dragonwriter »

frenchyatwork wrote: post #61
colejohnson66 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean “open source”? XLS is the (previously proprietary) format used by older versions that’s (basically) just serialized structs. XLS X (which I see here) is the ZIP/XML based version based on an open standard[0][1]. LibreOffice opens those just fine from my experience; It’s the older binary format that LibreOffice can screw up with formatting. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML [1]: ECM…

Perhaps things have gotten better, but OOXML is not an open format by the normal usage of the word (text based does not mean open). OOXML was rushed through the standardization process, and was entirely created by one vendor (Microsoft). Microsoft doesn't even bother to support the OOXML format completely, as the Wikipedia article notes.

> OOXML is not an open format by the normal usage of the word

It's a poor standard (including, iirc, normative references to behavior of particular proprietary software), but it's standardized and free to use.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by bordercases »

j1elo wrote: post #33

For the last 3 years I've been printing several copies of the Compact Calendar by David Seah [1]. It's as its name implies a compact form calendar that spans the whole year in a single page, and leaves enough side space to annotate stuff as needed. It's very cool and useful, although it would be nice having an open-source based version (i.e. LibreOffice), for those of us that don't have an MS Office license... [1]: h…

Thank goodness – you've brought up David Seah! I used to use his stationery religiously, but forgot his name. I appreciate it!

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by timfrietas »

kryogen1c wrote: post #40

how in the holy hell do you read this? there are only 5 dates columns; how do you read days in month columns 6 and 7 (feb aug mar nov)? am i suppossed to matrix multiply this thing or what. im not normally too dumb for things but boy this is totally opaque to me.

I am guessing that people outside the US do not have as much trouble, as the format is naturally dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yy, so reading left to right is more natural.

It took me a brief moment to acclimate to this, but after I did I felt it was pretty straightforward and elegant.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by barroomhero »

joelanman wrote: post #50

A few years back I took part in an online design challenge to make a pocket calendar - it was a lot of fun, my designs are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/albums/7215759450272... One of them is very similar to this one (Design 2) - I was tidying up someone else's idea. Dunno if David Seah's was related in any way or just people came up with the same idea.

Design 3 is quite nice. For me, it's the quickest to read.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by wccrawford »

asdf21 wrote: post #31
yepthatsreality wrote: post #29

- Source code? - Is this generated using a known algorithm? Can the same trick be applied to other years? Very cool idea!

It looks like it's currently manual, considering the double date on the 18th

It seems like it should be able to be done programmatically, though. It suddenly seems like a neat project.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by j1elo »

allannienhuis wrote: post #59
j1elo wrote: post #33

For the last 3 years I've been printing several copies of the Compact Calendar by David Seah [1]. It's as its name implies a compact form calendar that spans the whole year in a single page, and leaves enough side space to annotate stuff as needed. It's very cool and useful, although it would be nice having an open-source based version (i.e. LibreOffice), for those of us that don't have an MS Office license... [1]: h…

not open source (and not the above calendar), but similar and useful if you're not on windows: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1m1IWh6Mmli8K20Dd... [+ attribution] Many thanks to Pedro Pablo Fuentes Schuster for this Google Sheets conversion! http://pedrofuent.es/

Nice, thanks!
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