Can LaTeX Easily Generate Data Tables from Text Files?

[Norman]

Hello Everyone,

I have a question about publishing some data in Latex. I don't want to have to enter the data by hand into the latex document. Is there an easy way to take the data from a text file into latex and have it generate a table? Or would it be easier to just create a .eps file from some other software and include the table as graphics?

Does anyone have any experience with this sort of problem?
Thanks for any help or insight anyone can offer.
Cheers,
Ryan

 

[Dr Transport]

You cancopy and paste, then you will have to do some formatting. I don't think there is a way to read a file into LaTex in a table format...

 

[Triss]

There is a need little add-in to Excel that allows you to convert tabels into decent latex code. So it is properly easier (and better) to just import your data into excel and convert it to latex.

Its called xl2latex and is available on CTAN, http://www.dante.de/CTAN//support/xl2latex/ it is made for Excel97 but i have used it with both 2000 and XP, and although i get a runtime error it works fine.

 

[Norman]

There is a need little add-in to Excel that allows you to convert tabels into decent latex code. So it is properly easier (and better) to just import your data into excel and convert it to latex.

Its called xl2latex and is available on CTAN.

Would this be compatible with OpenOffice.org Calc? If not is there a similar program available?
Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Triss]

Seems so; see http://calc2latex.sourceforge.net/