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by mpaudel
Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:48 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: open and compile a tex document from another program
Replies: 6
Views: 13548

open and compile a tex document from another program

Hi there!
Problem with Excel than with LaTex... well Yes and No. I used Excel to get the .tex file written out. Then I tried running LaTex compiler from within Excel. So, I would say it is a kind of combined problem.
But I got it figured out. This is what I did:
- Write the .tex file (properly ...
by mpaudel
Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:18 pm
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: open and compile a tex document from another program
Replies: 6
Views: 13548

Re: open and compile a tex document from another program

Nick,
Thanks for your reply. I am not compiling the .tex file with Excel :) in fact I am using Excel to create the .tex file (by writing out the data in the spreadsheets to a text file... properly formatted and ready to use in LaTex).
I can open .tex compilers such as LED or Texnic center manually ...
by mpaudel
Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:01 am
Forum: Text Formatting
Topic: open and compile a tex document from another program
Replies: 6
Views: 13548

open and compile a tex document from another program

Hi All,
I am pretty new to this community and LaTex itself. I have created an Excel macro that is used to collect employee info and it writes out a .tex file. what I am trying to do and not being able is to compile the .tex file by calling the latex compiler from within Excel. I am a windows user ...