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- ABOUT
-
-Exceltex is a LaTeX package combined with a helper program written in
-Perl. It provides a easy to use yet powerfull and flexible way to get
-data from Spreadsheets into LaTeX.
-
-In difference to other existing solutions, exceltex does not seek for
-making the creation of tables in LaTeX easier, but to get data from
-Spreadsheets in into LaTeX as easy as possible.
-
-The excel fileformat acts as an interface between the spreadsheet
-application and exceltex beacause it is easily accessible via the
-Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Perl module and because most spreadsheet
-applications are able to read and write excel files.
-
-
-
-
- REQIREMENTS
-
-Exceltex depends on the perl module Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and the
-LaTeX Packages ulem and color.
-
-Currently a Unix like operating system is required, cygwin on windows
-should work also.
-
-
-
-
-
- LATEX COMMANDS
-
-Exceltex provides two commands to include single cells and cell-ranges
-for tabulars. Load the exceltex LaTeX package via
-\usepackage{exceltex}.
-
- \inccell{foo.xls!results!B9}
- includes cell B9 from sheet results in file foo.xls
-
- \inctab{foo.xls!results!B2!C15}
- includes the 14 rows between B2 and F15 from sheet results
- in file foo.xls in LaTeX' tabular format ('&' separated rows
- ended by \\)
-
-For both commands you may omit specifying the file (foo.xls) if it has
-the same basename (foo) as the LaTeX file (foo.tex).
-
-
-
-
- USAGE
-
-Mark cells and tabulars for inclusion with the \incell and \inctab
-commands. Then run latex, exceltex and latex again.
-
-The following Example demonstrates the usage of exceltex:
-
---- snip ---
-\documentclass{article}
-\usepackage[options]{exceltex}
-
-\begin{document}
-
-\title{a brief introduction to exceltex}
-\maketitle
-
-\section{including single cells}
-
-You can include contents of cells with the \\inccell command. Example:
-Cell A1 on sheet 'Sheet1' of file foo.xls is:
-\inccell{foo.xls!Sheet1!A1}
-
-
-\section{including tabulars}
-
-this is as easy as including single cells.
-
-\begin{tabular}{lll}
- \hline
- column 1 & colum 2 & colum 3 \\
- \hline
- \inctab{foo.xls!Sheet1!A1!C5}
- \hline
-\end{tabular}
-
-\end{document}
---- snap ---
-
-now, run latex, then exceltex and latex again.
-
-The \inctab command does nothing else than provide the requested cells
-in LaTeX' tabular format - colums are separated with a '&', each line
-is endet with a line break (\\). This gives you a maximum of
-flexibility and the freedom to use whatever tabular package you want.
-
-
-Currently one package option is supported.
-\usepackage[cellrefs]{exceltex} will write cell data to files named by
-filename, workbook and cell instead of sequentially numbered files.
-
-
-
-
- PROBLEMS
-
-* Exceltex cannot read Excel files created by Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
- (see Spreadsheet::ParseExcel documentatin for details).
-
-* Workbook names must not include problematic characters (LaTeX
- control Characters) (^,_,$,%,&,!). Just use Letters, Numbers and a
- Minus as spearator.
-
-* when using the cellrefs package option, whitespaces are also
- forbidden in workbook names and filenames. These are LaTeX
- limitations, i think.
-
-
-
-
-
- HOW IT WORKS
-
-The first LaTeX run writes an entry for each \inctab, \inccell command
-to a spearate index file (\jobname.exltx). This index is then read by
-the exceltex helper script, which actually extracts the ordered data
-and writes it to sequentially numbered files in the directory
-\jobname-exltx. The \inctab and \inccell are then simply including
-these files via a \InputIfExists{} command on the following latex runs.
-
-
-
-
- TODO
-
-Support for other formats than excels would be appreciating. There is
-maybe a chance to get OpenOffice Calc working. There is now a module
-OpenOffice::Parse::SXC on cpan which could to the job for Openoffice,
-but it seems quite new and is not includeded in Ubuntu yet. On the
-other hand, support for different fileformats would yield a naming
-problem, at the time i started with exceltex (in 2004) there was only
-Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, so the name exceltex ....
-
-
-The newest version of Exceltex is available at the following url:
-http://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~doerr/exceltex
-
-
-
-
- COPYING
-
-exceltex is Copyright 2004-2006 by Hans-Peter Doerr
-<doerr@cip.physik.uni-freiburg.de>
-
-This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There
-is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
-PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
-exceltex is distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public
-License (GPL) Version 2. See COPYING for details.
-
-
-
-README for exceltex version 0.5.1, Apr 30, 2006