* Giovanni Tummarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-04 19:26] wrote:
> Hello people, i am a student in engeneering trying to use lyx to write my
> master thesis.
> Although entusiast at the beginning of the journey (leaving "Word" behind
> seemed so attractive) i am now loosing entusiasm over the inability to import
> objects (tables, graphs etc..) from other applications as well as the apparent
> impossibility to really decide where things should go.
>
> Needless to say i am working on a windows 2000 environment.
this is not lyx's fault ;)
>
> Example.. i am using SPSS (very advanced statistical program) and it produces
> graphs and tables. Graphs i can export to EPS and therefore have them in my lyx
> document, no problems about that. but what about tables?? tables dont offer the
> "export to eps" option and there seem to be no way to include them in lyx
> without COMPLETELY REWRITING THEM (which is not an option since i have several
> tables filled with values). Of course if i open Word .. all i have to do is a
> copy/paste sequence and the table appairs in that environmanent as well. .ready
> to be nicely included.
if you can export to excel (or copy&paste to excel) you can use xl2latex from ctan
--
ronny
