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