Re: editing tabulars (tables) in emacs for TeX

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From: Allin Cottrell
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:08

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Ami Fischman wrote:

> Does anyone here know of a package for emacs to allow editing tabular
> environments (for (La)TeX documents) visually?  I have a large chart and
> editing it in TeX-mode is extremely tiresome...

Agreed, after a certain complexity is exceeded, editing (La)TeX tables
in emacs, even with the help of the excellent aucTeX, becomes a
real pain.  I suggest considering a spreadsheet program (e.g.
gnumeric if you're working under *nix).  You can put the TeX
business ('&' for column separation and '\\' for row termination)
into narrow columns and choose to save the table as text with
space separation.  The resulting file can either be pasted into
the TeX source, or included at compile time with \input.

If there's a better solution for large tables that doesn't involve
working outside of emacs (where I do my regular Tex editing), I'd
be glad to hear of it.

Allin Cottrell.

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