On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Well - I managed to get a reasonable quotation > > > Curious: what is a 'quotation'? Is it in the sense of a 'financial > quote'? My usual sources of information were frustratingly unhelpful. > Yes - financial quote. - effectively along the lines: if you want me to do that, it will cost you that much ..." and then broken down into cost categories in a table. > > > > out of the letter class, but > > what I was looking for was a way of doing column sums in a table - > otherwise > > I should be fine. I thought, that there was something in LyX, but didn't > > find anything. > > > There is, sort of. You can maintain your table in Gnumeric (or the > like) and import it dynamically at document compile via the > Spreadsheet external material. See [1][2]. True - I have thought about gnumeric, but to use it to create the quote - to embedd it dynamically, that's a good idea. > Alternatively you could use > the 'spreadtab' package as suggested here [3]. Yes - I saw the 'spreadtab' package. I guess, that it has not been included in LyX yet to be used without ert? > You could go with even > fancier solutions such as doing your computations in R (via Sweave) > and outputting the table in LaTeX. > That is always true - but definitely an overkill for me. Another option which came to my mind is to use emacs / org-mode and it's table calculations - but I would prefer a kind of "higher level" approach for cases like this - although it would be worth looking into org-mode (I am using it already for literate programming and some documents). Cheers, Rainer > > Regards > Liviu > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg168296.html > [2] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/SpreadsheetExternalInset > [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg86636.html > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug
