On Friday, July 3, 2015 7:39 AM, S. venkataraman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>I have a naive question? There is a possibility of calling PERL or Python from
>latex using perltex package.
>Is this possible in xetex? Will this feature be good enough?
Hello,
Yes it is possible to use perltex with xelatex. The command to call perltex
with xelatex is:
$ perltex --latex=xelatex YourXeLaTeXFile.tex
However, it is necessary to add the following two lines into perltex.pl
use utf8;
use feature 'unicode_strings';
since XeLaTeX files are UTF-8 encoded. On pages 3-4 of the perlex manual there
is an example
that prints a table. The Perl macro uses somewhere the expressions $header++
Unfortunately,
this does not work when one initially sets
$header = "α";
A simple solution to solve this problem is to use the following code:
$tabular .= "}{" . $header . "}"; #<---- originally $header++
$header = chr(ord($header)+1); #<---- added to get the effect
A.S.
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