Are there any WYSIWYG LaTeX table editors that you recommend for creating LaTeX tables?
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Manually hacking tables in LaTeX is one of the less funny things when preparing a document. Naturally, there are quite a few tools that promise to simplify this. In fact, I have somewhat lost track of all the tools available, and I'd like to gather your valuable experience into one big post. Some of the tools are mentioned in , but I feel there's much more around.  I'd suggest that somebody starts an overview with an alphabetic list (so that I can accept this answer and it stays on top), and that everyone replies with a "community wiki" entry, one reply per tool, and inserts the tool into the list.  Personally, I use Excel2LaTeX, but I'm unhappy with having to fire up Windows in order to generate the LaTeX code. I'm thinking of a rewrite as a standalone Python tool using the xlrd library, but I'm not too inclined to reinvent the wheel.
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I found  presentation document by D. J. Bernstein. Is it possible to create it in latex?  Screenshot
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I am using this LaTeX code to generate three tables side by side. However, it showing errors and not giving satisfactory result. Can anyone please help me to short out the problem.  \begin{table} \centering \makebox[0pt][c]{\parbox{1.2\textwidth}{% \begin{minipage}[b]{0.265\hsize}\centering \begin{tabular}{ | c | c |c | } \multicolumn{3}{c} \hline {$q=1/10$} \\ \hline T &amp; $r_h$ &amp; $\omega$ \\  \hline 0.233 &amp; 0.135 &amp; 2.38486-0.34667I  \\  0.256 &amp; 0.140 &amp; 2.38092-0.35837I \\ 0.273 &amp; 0.145 &amp; 2.38049-0.35982I \\  0.278 &amp; 0.146 &amp; 2.38007-0.36130I \\  0.281 &amp; 0.147 &amp; 2.37964-0.36282I \\  \hline 0.284 &amp; 0.761 &amp; 2.54150-2.03209I \\ 0.285 &amp; 0.765 &amp; 2.54515-2.04292I \\ 0.289 &amp; 0.800 &amp; 2.57799-2.13761I \\ 0.302 &amp; 0.900 &amp; 2.67987-2.40712I \\ 0.312 &amp; 1.000 &amp; 2.79214-2.67552I \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{minipage} \hfill \begin{minipage}[b]{0.265\hsize}\centering \begin{tabular}{ | c | c | c | } \multicolumn{3}{c} \hline {$q=1/9$} \\ \hline T &amp; $r_h$ &amp; $\omega$ \\ \hline 0.227 &amp; 0.150 &amp; 2.34385-0.41094I  \\  0.245 &amp; 0.155 &amp; 2.34215-0.41723I \\ 0.260 &amp; 0.160 &amp; 2.34056-0.42416I \\  0.271 &amp; 0.165 &amp; 2.33908-0.43175I \\  0.276 &amp; 0.167 &amp; 2.33852-0.43497I \\  \hline 0.280 &amp; 0.720 &amp; 2.50248-1.92299I \\ 0.283 &amp; 0.750 &amp; 2.52893-2.00424I \\ 0.286 &amp; 0.780 &amp; 2.55660-2.08533I \\ 0.289 &amp; 0.800 &amp; 2.57568-2.13931I \\ 0.302 &amp; 0.900 &amp; 2.67807-2.40842I \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{minipage} \hfill \begin{minipage}[b]{0.265\hsize}\centering \begin{tabular}{ | c | c | c |} \multicolumn{3}{c} \hline {$q=1/8$} \\ \hline T &amp; $r_h$ &amp; $\omega$ \\  \hline 0.246 &amp; 0.180 &amp; 2.29733-0.50611I  \\  0.255 &amp; 0.185 &amp; 2.29654-0.51364I \\ 0.263 &amp; 0.190 &amp; 2.29589-0.52172I \\  0.269 &amp; 0.195 &amp; 2.29534-0.53033I \\  0.273 &amp; 0.199 &amp; 2.29496-0.53758I \\  \hline 0.275 &amp; 0.675 &amp; 2.46067-1.80426I \\ 0.277 &amp; 0.700 &amp; 2.48131-1.87194I \\ 0.288 &amp; 0.800 &amp; 2.57245-2.14170I \\ 0.302 &amp; 0.900 &amp; 2.67555-2.41027I \\ 0.317 &amp; 1.000 &amp; 2.78870-2.67796I \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{minipage}% }} \end{table}
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I have a new app I'll be working on where I have to generate a Word document that contains tables, graphs, a table of contents and text.  What's a good API to use for this?  How sure are you that it supports graphs, ToCs, and tables?  What are some hidden gotcha's in using them?  Some clarifications:   I can't output a PDF, they want a Word doc. They're using MS Word 2003 (or 2007), not OpenOffice Application is running on *nix app-server   It'd be nice if I could start with a template doc and just fill in some spaces with tables, graphs, etc.  Edit: Several good answers below, each with their own faults as far as my current situation.  Hard to pick a "final answer" from them.  Think I'll leave it open, and hope for better solutions to be created.  Edit: The OpenOffice UNO project does seem to be closest to what I asked for.  While POI is certainly more mainstream, it's too immature for what I want.
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I have a LaTeX table generated like this,   \begin{table}[ht] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{rrrrrrr} \hline &amp; 1 &amp; 2 &amp; 3 &amp; 4 &amp; 5 &amp; 6 \\  \hline 1 &amp; 181.21 &amp; 169.01 &amp; 130.03 &amp; 135.93 &amp; 142.31 &amp; 108.11 \\  2 &amp; 106.80 &amp; 130.71 &amp; 186.43 &amp; 126.46 &amp; 167.28 &amp; 137.91 \\  3 &amp; 162.69 &amp; 198.98 &amp; 188.33 &amp; 184.30 &amp; 147.02 &amp; 197.38 \\  4 &amp; 132.42 &amp; 150.50 &amp; 148.69 &amp; 134.31 &amp; 129.52 &amp; 172.72 \\  \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{table}   but when i compile it in MiKTeX I am getting the following error   ! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \begin           {table}[ht] ?  Process interrupted by user   I want a table generated from this i am compiling under pdfTeX. I am using LaTeX for first time, can anyone please give a suggestion?
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Is there any tool that can convert Latex documents to HTML documents, so that all math is presented with ?  (Obviously, it is fairly easy to hack together a quick Perl script that is able to do a crude conversion, but I am interested in a bit more robust solutions — at least it should get all cross-references right automatically.)
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I know that you can combine tabularx and longtable functionality with either ltxtable or ltablex, but is there something similar for tabulary? My searching has come up dry when looking for any way to get tabulary to work with very long tables.  The table I am working with has large amounts of text that requires line breaking in multiple columns. Some cells have very little, and some have a lot, and I would like to see the column widths juggled to minimize total table length. I realize I could manually do this with the {&gt;{\hsize=.5\hsize}X&gt;{\hsize=1.5\hsize}X} functionality in tabularx, but what I'm making is intended to be a template that should work well with any particular arrangement of data that gets thrown in. Am I doomed to using tabularx and manually adjusting the hsize numbers each time I want to make a table?
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Stack Overflow provides good tools in the question editor, like "Links" and "Styling".  Another thing that for me would be nice is a color selector. Although an HTML editor is available, a direct click on tool would be good, and users can select different colors, as for marking errors in their program with red, and more important data with blue.
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I really love Notepad++ and I haven't found an alternative for it yet. TextMate and TextWrangler aren't quite there yet. Specifically,  two things that I want that are not in TextMate:   variable highlighting bracket highlighting   Can you suggest an alternative editor for OS X?
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I need to copy a table from a pdf file to my LaTeX document. I know I have to do it by hand but still don't understand how to create a table with LaTeX.
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For my writing I am using MS Word and Zotero as bibliography manager. But now I think I am going to move to LaTeX on a  Linux box. I just toyed with Texmaker to generate my documents and it works fine so far. But I do not know how to manage my citations.  I found BibDesk and  with TexMate, but it's for Mac.   Are there any similar tools which I can use in Ubuntu ?
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One of the problems that I have read that people say about LaTeX is it isn't very good for quick note taking.  Has anyone used LaTeX for quick note taking? If so what template have you used? And how have you setup your system so it is relatively easy to make quick notes?  EDIT In response to some of the comments, I am currently using vim as my editor. Which I am very proficient in using.
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As opposed to LaTeX, which is addressed in another question.  Most of the references I've seen get too complex too quickly. I'm looking for something that gives me a top-down view of the language - what the parts of a document are and how (and when) each is processed before proceeding to infinite detail like character classes (e.g.). Something heavily example-based, with real-world examples, would be helpful as well. I just find the language incredibly obscure and difficult to grok.
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I received a table template, which I'm intended to generate dynamically with data using Java. But when the table becomes to large, the compilation with LaTeX fails. The specific about this template is, that it stretches the table width into the maximal page width and has same column widths for all data columns (except the first column).  Here is a minimal version of the full template, that still works fine:  \documentclass[final,authoryear,3p,twocolumn]{elsarticle}  \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath} \usepackage{calc} \usepackage{array} \newcolumntype{L}[1]{&gt;{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{#1}} \newcolumntype{R}[1]{&gt;{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{#1}} \usepackage{eurosym} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{needspace} \usepackage{fp}  \usepackage{graphicx} \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf} \input{pgfexternal}  \newcommand\tabt{\rule{0pt}{2.6ex}} \newcommand\tabb{\rule[-1.2ex]{0pt}{0pt}}  \begin{document}  \begin{table*}[t]     \footnotesize     \begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{@{}L{2em}@{}*9{R{(\linewidth-2em)/9}@{}}}\hline\tabt $i$ &amp; $1$ &amp; $2$ &amp; $3$ &amp; $4$ &amp; $5$ &amp; $6$ &amp; $7$ &amp; $8$ &amp; $9$\tabb\tabularnewline\hline\tabt $1$ &amp;  &amp; $48.87$ &amp; $0.01$ &amp; $0.05$ &amp; $1.23$ &amp; $0.00$ &amp; $0.20$ &amp; $5.67$ &amp; $2.35$\tabularnewline     \end{tabular*} \end{table*}  \end{document}   But when extending this example by another column, so that the table would look like the following example, it fails:  \begin{table*}[t]     \footnotesize     \begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{@{}L{2em}@{}*10{R{(\linewidth-2em)/10}@{}}}\hline\tabt $i$ &amp; $1$ &amp; $2$ &amp; $3$ &amp; $4$ &amp; $5$ &amp; $6$ &amp; $7$ &amp; $8$ &amp; $9$ &amp; a\tabb\tabularnewline\hline\tabt $1$ &amp;  &amp; $48.87$ &amp; $0.01$ &amp; $0.05$ &amp; $1.23$ &amp; $0.00$ &amp; $0.20$ &amp; $5.67$ &amp; $2.35$ &amp; b\tabularnewline     \end{tabular*} \end{table*}   This fails, no matter how many columns I add. So far, it seems for me to be a problem with the division by 10. May it be, that LaTeX isn't able to handle that properly by default? How can I solve this problem and make even larger tables work using this template. Or is that to any other problem I don't see yet? Thanks for any help!
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I'm interested in learning about some nice-looking table samples. Colors can make a huge difference, and just providing some color to headers, background, or borders can dramatically change presentation. Any samples you're proud to share?  (BTW here's a sample I like, but unfortunately, not TeX...)
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Is there something like indent for LaTeX? I have a collaborator that is using Scientific Workplace and the code it produces is totally messed up; I know I shouldn't expect miracles, but any machine support would be useful.  EDIT: This question is quite undefined without my comment to KeithB's answer; the idea is to save VC-friendly one sentence/one paragraph per text file line structure which SWT "fixes" by wrapping everything into fixed column width format.
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I like  under Windows. I was wondering if there are some similar ones for Ubuntu? Or just the powerful and convenient one in your opinion.  Features that I like are:   syntax highlighting for language X theme support line numbering code folding regex style Powerful, yet not resource-consuming