For automation, I include a tex file within Lyx. I then create all of my latex tables using python or whatever. It produces valid latex. This is very hard to do without a heavy level of conformity. For example, I can write a quick script that will take 95 rows of 4 column data quite quickly. I have a very hard time figuring out how to make a latex table with 95 rows of a variable number of columns. Even better, multiple tables with multiple numbers of columns. Eventually, you would have to give it the number of columns to produce.
Once you have python producing your latex table, you can simply rerun your Lyx and it will include the documents. If you have multiple tables, include a master tex table file in Lyx and update it with the python generated tables. BTW, I did this for my dissertation with remarkable success. This is a very difficult task. I would just import into Excel, break into columns on "|" and copy it into Lyx. Thanks, ~Ben On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 6:02 PM Baris Erkus <bariser...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 10/31/2018 12:48 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > > >> it depends entirely on what you mean by efficient. > > > > el: > > > > If I can highlight the entire file in emacs, use M-w to copy it, then > > paste it in a blank LyX table that's efficient: 10 seconds or less. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rich > > Well, for the sake of discussion: > > There may be cases where the table data is constantly being updated or > it is a lot, and the LaTeX or LyX files need to be regenerated many > times; then, the task of creating tables in LyX using copy and paste > may be impractical. For these cases, procedures and tools those are more > automated would be quite helpful as Eberhand suggested. > > Of course, quick fixes like the ones that have been recommended in the > group would suffice for one or two times of creation of tables, and we > use these methods on daily basis. > > Bests, > > Baris > > > >
