On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 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.
Howdy, Interesting that the path to the exceltex package file was given as /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/exceltex.sty in the console output from the original message. Is that also where TL2011 and/or MikTeX put the packages? PS: I'm not familiar with Windows at all. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
