Re: generating latex tables in emacs

[Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au>]

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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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