[OS X TeX] Excel tables to LaTeX - new script

[Rolf Turner]

On 15/07/2009, at 3:44 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

> At 1:07 PM +1200 7/15/09, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> On 15/07/2009, at 12:55 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Tables are always a pain in the neck to write in LaTeX.  I used to
>>> use an Excel macro xl2latex.xls which would convert an Excel  
>>> table to
>>> LaTeX
>>
>> 	<snip>
>>
>> 	There is no accounting for taste, or the lack thereof.
>>
>> 	I have *never* found tables to be a pain in the anywhere,
>> 	in LaTeX.  Page 64 of Lamport's book makes everything crystal
>> 	clear.  Whereas I wouldn't touch Excel with a sterilised
>> 	barge pole.  For anything.
>>
>> 	Fortunately freedom of choice prevails; except insofar as
>> 	the MicroSoft monopoly forces the rest of us to use the MS
>> 	junk ``because everybody else does''.
>>
>
> And your point is? If you don't need it, don't use it. Some of us
> live in a world where we use a variety of tools as fit our own
> workflow.  Nothing in what I posted implied that tables were
> difficult to understand, so reference to Lamport is pretty
> irrelevant. I suppose you must feel smugly superior with your
> posting. Many people use Excel for various reasons, and having a
> simple way to cut and paste between Excel and LaTeX may be useful to
> those people.  Since you're not one of them, simply go about your
> business as if nothing had happened.
>
> (I guess I shouldn't feed the troll, but I'd like to keep this list
> the friendly place it usually is.)

	Just ***who*** is being unfriendly?

		cheers,

			Rolf Turner

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