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how do you compile your latex files?

If you do it from the commandline, then you could just write a bashscript with two lines-- one which compiles the latex files and one which writes your desired output.

I'm guessing you would have thought of this if you do it from the command line, but I find ...

Although I am unexperienced with LaTeX, I am pretty sure that there is a way. One possibility is perltex. For that you would have to know Perl though :). I haven't tried it yet, but might be willing to give it a try if this issue is important to you.
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex ...

Hi Papas,

You could do this using a scripting language-- for example, Perl, which is great for processing text. In fact, I just found a great tool called PerlTeX which allows you to integrate Perl and LaTeX.

check it out: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... b/perltex/

great, please post back with your comments or if you find a way that you like better. I would be interested in hearing about the particular problems that come up. This must be a somewhat common endeavor. I am guessing that if there is no dedicated module, then perhaps it really is just a simple ...

Hi Moreno71,

I remember seeing a similar thread a few months ago. I'm not sure what the best solution was, but I will give my proposal again:

Say you want to have English and Spanish, then make a new command:
\newcommand{\mylanguage}[2]{#1}
and where you want to have two versions, do this ...

latexforever, I do not see why the other methods suggested don't work. Is there any chance that you're accidently using two rotations at the same time? I'm guessing not, but thought I would check.

Check out this pdf: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/mori/mori.pdf

and go to section 3.2. Some of ...

with the bash and python scripts, you would have to take that output and copy it into your main tex file. This shouldn't be much of a problem in most cases, but if your files are constantly changing and you have to rerun and repaste a lot, then you might consider a program which takes your main .tex ...

sorry for the late reply, I just remembered about this post.

Thank you, localghost and phi for the explanations.

I now understand why it is important. I hadn't realized the consistency aspect of it.

thanks

great! thank you for the replies. It's nice to have a few different approaches to a problem.

thanks!

Hi,

I cannot figure out how to align the caption of a table. My caption is at the top and I am using tabularx package. I would like to align it to the left.

Also, what is the best way to put notes in a table? Is there an environment or package that is recommended to use?

thank you