TeXShop ⇒ Adding Tables

[BNPadgett]

I am learning that it is a pain to add tables in LaTeX... In fact pain doesnt even begin to describe it.

I am currently writing my thesis and I need to find an easy way to tabulate data in TexShop. I have tried to used excel2latex, but I have not had much success. My operating system is 10.4.10 and for one reason or another it doesn't support this add-in. Does anybody have suggestions as to a quick and easy method for creating tables? Or rectifyig my issue with excel2latex? I could do all the programming by hand I suppose... but I eventually would like to finish before the end of this decade.

Thanks!!!

Nikki

[Andy22]

I'm not familiar with MacOS but if you can run Windows-Software on your Mac you may use http://g32.org/latable/index.html.

[asblom]

I am learning that it is a pain to add tables in LaTeX... In fact pain doesnt even begin to describe it.

I am currently writing my thesis and I need to find an easy way to tabulate data in TexShop. I have tried to used excel2latex, but I have not had much success. My operating system is 10.4.10 and for one reason or another it doesn't support this add-in. Does anybody have suggestions as to a quick and easy method for creating tables? Or rectifyig my issue with excel2latex? I could do all the programming by hand I suppose... but I eventually would like to finish before the end of this decade.

Thanks!!!

Nikki

In case you're still searching for a solution:

It depends a bit on which kind of tasks you want to do. If you are going to the same process for a lot of datasets consisting of text-files (e.g. comma-seperated-text, which excel can export) I would recommend your to take a look into sed and awk. With these programs you can write scripts which exports the data to LaTeX-code quite easy. They can be a bit tricky in the beginning but when you get to learn them they are really handy and fast.


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