No, but Excel (or OpenOffice Calc) can do a nice job of slurping up tab-delimited text. If you give it a chance, LaTeX will ruin you for word processors. Who wants to worry about where stuff goes or in what font? Use markup to describe what you are writing, and let the computer fuss with the details. I can spot something typeset with LaTeX a mile away, simply by its (invariably) superior page design, something that requires no thought at all.
________________________________________ From: pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-boun...@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Friedrich Dominicus [fr...@q-software-solutions.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:29 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] What are you using to write reports? "Schwab,Wilhelm K" <bsch...@anest.ufl.edu> writes: > Tab-delimited text is very useful; I tend to see the world in terms of > R (http://cran.r-project.org/) data frames, even when I do not plan to > involve R. HTML makes a nice way to scroll through data. As for > connecting with OpenOffice or (I can't say it<g>), I find LaTeX to be > much nicer to use. It has a steep learning curve, but the view from > near the top is pretty good. Well I have thought about LaTex also. But you have to agree an Excel can not make much use of a LaTex document ;-( Regards Friedrich -- Q-Software Solutions GmbH; Sitz: Bruchsal; Registergericht: Mannheim Registriernummer: HRB232138; Geschaeftsfuehrer: Friedrich Dominicus _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
