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diff --git a/support/excel2latex/README.md b/support/excel2latex/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d2bf8dffea --- /dev/null +++ b/support/excel2latex/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +# Excel2LaTeX +Making tables in LaTeX can be tedious, especially if some columns are calculated. +This converter allows you to write a table in Excel instead, and export the current selection as LaTeX markup +which can be pasted into an existing LaTeX document, or exported to a file and included via the `\input` command. + +Known to be compatible with Windows Excel 2000–2016 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Mac Excel 2004, 2011, and 2016. +May also be compatible with other versions that support `.xla` add-ins. + +![Excel and Excel2LaTeX comparison](https://i.imgur.com/UNKCihT.png) + +## Features +Most Excel formatting is supported. + * Bold and italic (if applied to the whole cell) + * Left, right, center, and general alignment (per-cell or per-column) + * Vertical and horizontal borders (per-cell or per-column, single or double) + * Font color (using the `xcolor` package) + * Fill color (using the `colortbl` package) + * Rotation (using the `rotating` package) + * Merged cells (using the `multirow` package, if needed) + * Can convert `\`, `$`, `_`, `^`, `%`, `&`, and `#` to appropriate macros, or leave them in-place + * Supports `booktabs` package + * Uses `bigstrut` package when `booktabs` is not available + * Makes standard LaTeX `tabular` environment + * Can surround `tabular` environment with `table` environment template + * Copy output to clipboard or export to a `.tex` file for inclusion using `\include` + * Save table specifications to your Excel worksheet, then export all tables at once + +## Using +Just open the file Excel2LaTeX.xla in Excel. Then you will have two additional +menu items in your **Tools** menu and a new toolbar with two buttons on it. For +Excel 2007 and later, you will have two new buttons in the **Add-Ins** ribbon. If +you plan to use the program frequently, you can save it in your addin directory +and add it with **Tools**→**Add-Ins**. This way it will be loaded whenever Excel is +opened. + +Select the table to convert and hit the button **Convert Table to LaTeX**. You +will be given the option to save the result to a `.tex` file, or send it to the clipboard +(so you can paste it into your LaTeX editor). Hit the **Store** button to store the +current settings so you can **Load** them later or **Export All** to files. + +![Excel2LaTeX interface](https://i.imgur.com/EK88upo.png) + +## Contributing +The development repository and the bug tracker for this package are hosted on +[GitHub](https://github.com/krlmlr/Excel2LaTeX). To work with the project, you +will require chelh's [VBA Sync Tool](https://github.com/chelh/VBASync). + +## License +Copyright © 1996–2017 Chelsea Hughes, Kirill Müller, Andrew Hawryluk, +Germán Riaño, and Joachim Marder. + +This work is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3 +or later, available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt + +Chelsea Hughes currently maintains this project (comprising `Excel2LaTeX.xla` +and `README.md`) and will receive error reports at the project GitHub page +(see **Contributing** above). |