generating latex tables in emacs

generating latex tables in emacs

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

What packages or techniques are people using to generate tables in
emacs? I need to generate a latex table, but I don't have time to code
it. 

Thanks for any help,
Dan

Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What packages or techniques are people using to generate tables in
> emacs? I need to generate a latex table, but I don't have time to code
> it.

It looks from your emails like you could use an easy method of  
generating both LaTeX and HTML -- using Org-Mode and exporting to  
various other formats can be a good way of doing that. You'll have to  
read up on Org-Mode, of course, but it's relatively simple to use and  
you're going to have to learn something or other, after all.

E

http://orgmode.org/

> Thanks for any help,
> Dan
>
>

Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Hi Daniel,

You could also try zen coding for html:

   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ZenCoding

This is also included in nXhtml, which in itself might be of interest for you.

If you want to try nXhtml then currently use the beta from here:

   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/elisp/nxhtml/beta/



On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <girzel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What packages or techniques are people using to generate tables in
>> emacs? I need to generate a latex table, but I don't have time to code
>> it.
>
> It looks from your emails like you could use an easy method of generating
> both LaTeX and HTML -- using Org-Mode and exporting to various other formats
> can be a good way of doing that. You'll have to read up on Org-Mode, of
> course, but it's relatively simple to use and you're going to have to learn
> something or other, after all.
>
> E
>
> http://orgmode.org/
>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Dan
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Daniel Dalton]

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Hi Lennart,

Thanks for that I'll take a look at that.

Dan

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:20:56PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> You could also try zen coding for html:
> 
>    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ZenCoding
> 
> This is also included in nXhtml, which in itself might be of interest for you.
> 
> If you want to try nXhtml then currently use the beta from here:
> 
>    http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/elisp/nxhtml/beta/
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <girzel@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What packages or techniques are people using to generate tables in
> >> emacs? I need to generate a latex table, but I don't have time to code
> >> it.
> >
> > It looks from your emails like you could use an easy method of generating
> > both LaTeX and HTML -- using Org-Mode and exporting to various other formats
> > can be a good way of doing that. You'll have to read up on Org-Mode, of
> > course, but it's relatively simple to use and you're going to have to learn
> > something or other, after all.
> >
> > E
> >
> > http://orgmode.org/
> >
> >> Thanks for any help,
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >

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Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Daniel Dalton]

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> 
> to read up on Org-Mode, of course, but it's relatively simple to use
> and you're going to have to learn something or other, after all.

Very true, I shall do that. Is that based on the table-insert command,
or is aucmode's table handling separate?

Thanks!
Dan

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Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Feb 27, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>> to read up on Org-Mode, of course, but it's relatively simple to use
>> and you're going to have to learn something or other, after all.
>
> Very true, I shall do that. Is that based on the table-insert command,
> or is aucmode's table handling separate?

Hmm, not quite sure what you mean. Org-Mode has it's own, very easy to  
use table format (just ASCII tables). If you export an orgmode  
document to LaTeX it will turn the ascii tables into LaTeX tables  
(inserting the appropriate usepackage statements at the top). If  
you're not doing anything terribly sneaky you can use the standard  
export settings, and have org mode do the entire export-to-latex- 
process-with-latex-and-open-resulting-pdf dance all with one command.

Alter the command, and the same ascii tables turn into html tables,  
and the html document is opened in your default browser.

E

>
> Thanks!
> Dan

Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Daniel Dalton]

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Ah yes, I had a read of the org-mode documentation, and understand
now. That simplifies things a lot. 

Thanks!
Dan

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:48:16PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> 
> On Feb 27, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:06:39PM +0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> >>
> >>to read up on Org-Mode, of course, but it's relatively simple to use
> >>and you're going to have to learn something or other, after all.
> >
> >Very true, I shall do that. Is that based on the table-insert command,
> >or is aucmode's table handling separate?
> 
> Hmm, not quite sure what you mean. Org-Mode has it's own, very easy
> to use table format (just ASCII tables). If you export an orgmode
> document to LaTeX it will turn the ascii tables into LaTeX tables
> (inserting the appropriate usepackage statements at the top). If
> you're not doing anything terribly sneaky you can use the standard
> export settings, and have org mode do the entire export-to-latex-
> process-with-latex-and-open-resulting-pdf dance all with one
> command.
> 
> Alter the command, and the same ascii tables turn into html tables,
> and the html document is opened in your default browser.
> 
> E
> 
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Dan
> 
> 

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Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Sergei]

On Feb 26, 2:41 pm, Daniel Dalton <d.dal...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi,

> What packages or techniques are people using to generate tables in
> emacs? I need to generate a latex table, but I don't have time to code
> it.

Have a look table.el (for latex and html).
Also the wiki-like muse.el for complete articles.

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Sergio