Re: editing tabulars (tables) in emacs for TeX

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From: Peter Baker
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 04:21

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In gnu.emacs.help Allin Cottrell <cottrell@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu> wrote:
> 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...

As a followup to Allin Cottrell suggesting gnumeric, I took a look at
my really old version of gnumeric (0.48) and tried the simple
alternative of 

- save as Latex2e format - 

looks like to should work reasonably well if you just paste the
relavant bits into you tex file.

Regards
Peter

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From: Peter Baker <peteb@csiro.au>
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Subject: Re: editing tabulars (tables) in emacs for TeX
Date: 19 Sep 2001 04:21:42 GMT
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