On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Ethan Merritt wrote: > merritt [36] which in_cranio > in_cranio: aliased to pdftotext -layout > > merritt [37] in_cranio pro200700038_s.pdf
This has just taken the data from one visual format to another purely text-based visual format. You still have to split it into text files manually and then import the data manually. Table S3 is split, so it will have to be imported to the spreadsheet program in three steps and then merged. We have to be careful when we split "Best Ion Score", "Best Ion C.I. %", and "Coverage". These headings merge to a single space between them, so we can't use that spacing as an indicator. Try this, start your stopwatch, begin to convert all of these tables to spreadsheets or your favorite database format, validate that the import was correct and that the data types are what you expect, clean up extraneous information like "(page n/N)", save all the files, stop your stopwatch, and then tell us how long it took. That is the real task, not simply reformatting the data to pure text. If you think that this is an unreasonable request, then you are starting to get my point. James
