[TxMt] Re: Latex tables and Excel

[William Yang]

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:16 PM, William Yang wrote:
> 
>> And about your OT: how about Openoffice (or NeoOffice)?  They have a 
>> pretty robust spreadsheet program from my limited use.
> 
> They are way too bloated in my opinion, for most uses. In my computer, 
> Openoffice takes a full 2 minutes to load, and similar performance for 
> NeoOffice, and their memory demands are huge as well. If I just want to 
> add 10 numbers, I shouldn't have to go through all that. ( I guess 
> that's why I created my Spreadsheet bundle for textmate).
> 
>  From my point of view they serve essentially one purpose: To allow one 
> to open Microsoft Office files without having Microsoft Office.
> 
> Anyway, to return to the script question, I just committed a simpler 
> version of the script, in Ruby, that should work just fine with your 
> case. Let me know how it works (if you follow the repository version of 
> the LaTeX bundle that is.)
> 
>> Will
> 
> Haris
> 
> 
> 
Works great. Only thing is, if there is a tab in the very beginning then 
it would add a "&" even though it is not needed.  Would it be useful to 
remove tabs at the beginning and end of the line first?  Thanks

Will