[OS X TeX] "Paste Spreadsheet Cells" and csv2latex

[David Derbes]

Thanks very much, Alan. I have used your old program many times, and it has saved me a lot of labor (not to mention probably countless mistakes!)

David Derbes
U of Chicago Lab Schools

On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Alan Munn wrote:

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> On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:39 PM, David Derbes wrote:
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>> Alan Munn put together a very nifty and perhaps easier solution called xl2latex, based on an earlier program by Tom Counsell. Apparently this is now renamed to csv2latex. Anyway, the version I used (and continue to use) is a Ruby program. Basically, you open up the Terminal and also your Excel file. You copy the cells into memory. In Terminal, you execute the command 
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>> ruby xl2latex.rb
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>> (making sure that the program xl2latex.rb is in your directory so that the Ruby interpreter can find it), and the terminal reports "OK. Data in memory". You then type Command-V at that point in your LaTeX source you want the table of Excel data, and there it is.
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>> Perhaps the new version is the old one renamed with a few bells and whistles...
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> Yes, I've added an Applescript that allows you to choose a table type, and it's now included directly into TeXShop, which is what David M's question was about.
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> You (David D.) might want to check out the newer version; it requires no terminal use at all.
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> Alan
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>> David Derbes
>> U of Chicago Lab Schools
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>> On Feb 20, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
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>>> On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:05 PM, David Messerschmitt wrote:
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>>>> As one of those lazy users who just wants things to work without a lot of fuss, I was excited to find the Macros Help in TexShop 2.31 describing a Default Applescript Macro "Paste Spreadsheet Cells". With considerable excitement I went to the TexShop Macros->Applescript menu to look for it, and was disappointed that it was not listed. Assuming this refers to csv2latex, I then looked for csv2latex among the macro menus and could not find it either. Am I missing something simple? It would be great if this useful macro was available without a lot of installation fuss.
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>>> Being one of the laziest users on this list, I certainly could not cast the first stone.
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>>> In the case of cvs2latex, I downloaded it, unzipped it, did something else and created the following macro in TeXShop:
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>>> --Applescript direct
>>> --If you change the location of the csv2latex script, you must change
>>> --this script accordingly to reflect the new location.
>>> set mainList to {"cells","booktabs", "simple","longtable" }
>>> choose from list mainList with prompt "Choose a table format"
>>> set tablestyle to result as text
>>> do shell script  "~/Library/texmf//csv2latex" & " " &  tablestyle
>>> tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down}
>>> --End of Applescript
>>> 
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>>> At this point, though, I can't remember what the something else was but since I am terminally install-challenged ...
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>>> And, unless someone beats me to it, I should have the solution tomorrow.
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>>> Regards
>>> --schremmer
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