[texhax] Modifying LaTeX tables

[Sam Albers]

Thanks Andy. This was exactly what I was looking for.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>wrote:

>
>
> Scripts are a great answer. For my textbook I eventually
> developed a build script (Make or Perl are useful component choices)
> to process every source, regenerating data if something changed.
> This part is essential to avoid long build times that revise
> data even if it hasn't changed.
>
> The idea is to keep the authorative sources of data at the root of
> the build process and eliminate every manual step you can.
>
> Many popular packages like Matlab, Octave, R
> can export latex table forms with a suitable function/plugin.
>
> If you're building a large document, thesis, report, or textbook
> then the time spent writing a little script is quickly repaid.
>
> Exporters
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/02/msg00425.html
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/authors/30876
>
> Make
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/classes/c304/Makefiles.html
> http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/make/
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/courses/programming/Makefiles/Makefiles.html
>
> Use Make with LaTeX
> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bsd/tex/
> http://web.mit.edu/~jcrost/www/latexmake.html
>
> Sed, Awk
> http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-0
> http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html
> http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html
> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/tech_docs/qref/awk.html
>
> May be useful to you
> http://www.lafferty.ca/software/pbook/
>
>
>
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:16:19 +0200
> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
>
> > On 7 June 2009 Sam Albers wrote:
> >
> >  > Hello all,
> >  >
> >  > I have a general methodology question concerning tables in LaTeX and I
> was
> >  > just wondering what the collective wisdom of the list thought.
> >  >
> >  > Currently I am making tables using a spreadsheet then saving the file
> as a
> >  > .csv file, replacing commas with an ampersand and then formatting the
> table
> >  > to include in a .tex file. The problem I am running into is that if I
> want
> >  > to modify the table after this process (say add a column) I have to
> start
> >  > from scratch at the spreadsheet level which can be fairly time
> consuming. I
> >  > just wondering what other people do to make this more efficient. That
> is,
> >  > how do people go about making tables and modifying then after some
> edits
> >  > have been made.
> >
> > I'm not using spreadsheets, but I often have the need to do something
> > more than once.  I usually write a little Perl script, but every other
> > scripting language is fine as well.
> >
> > There is also an experimental package on CTAN, but I don't know
> > anything about it:
> >
> >    http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/macros/latex/exptl/delimtxt/
> >
> > Regards,
> >   Reinhard
> >
> > --
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> > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is
> NO.
> >
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