2012/1/8 Herbert Schulz <[email protected]>: > > On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, A u wrote: > >> I among windows user can you tell me a way to do in Linux or Mac OSX? >> >> Regards >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Jan 8, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Zdenek Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 2012/1/8 A u <[email protected]>: >>>> I am trying to import text from Excel or CSV to Latex. >>>> It works great when the text is in English. I am using exceltex to do that. >>>> However when I put "Sanskrit" Text in the spreadsheet and import it to >>>> excel, it bring only " ???" in place of the sanskrit text. >>>> Is it possible to do? >>>> >>> Exceltex assumes Latin1 and thus can only work with western languages. >>> You have to modify the script. Remove my $ENCODING = "latin1"; and >>> insert use utf8; instead. I am not sure that it is enough, there are >>> some tricks with encoding of the output files. There is some >>> information in the manual but I am not a Windows user and do not have >>> Excel so that I cannot try. >>> >>>> I would appreciate your help >>>> regards > > Howdy, > > Another inquiry... I've got TL2011, via the MacTeX installer, with all > updates and there is no exceltex program or package. Is that a Windows only > item? > It's a LaTeX package + a perl script. It is available from CTAN and included in MiKTeX but not in TeX Live. I am not sure how the perl scripts accesses the Excel file, I did not try to read it. If it makes use of a Windows specific GUI, it is useless for non-Windows users.
> Good Luck, > > Herb Schulz > (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
