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Basic LaTeX is easy; ramping up has a significant learning curve, but once that mount has been scaled, things level off quickly. Doing tables in straight LaTeX

Basic LaTeX is easy; ramping up has a significant learning curve, but once that mount has been scaled, things level off quickly. Doing tables in straight LaTeX is miserable — CTAN, however, is filled with fantastic packages that make them easy. XeLaTeX makes inserting images pretty easy without packages. I will say that what may cause difficulty with images for people new to LaTeX are floats — tables, images, and the like may move page to page depending on how the document flows; if you're used to anchoring an image on a particular page in a WP, that may put one's mind a bit out of joint until it makes sense.

kzrdude 4y ago
What's an example of a good tables package? Thanks
- flenserboy 4y ago
  Calctab is interesting — https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/calctab/calctab_manual.pdf https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/calctab/... It's not what it's designed for, but Eledmac has some interesting tabular features — https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac/eledmac.pdf https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/co... There's a good list here — https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12672/which-tabular-packages-do-which-tasks-and-which-packages-conflict https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12672/which-tabular-... Also, with some care, the tabular environment can be made to work very well. Example — % In the preamble: \def\qfont{\usefont{T1}{AlegreyaSans-LF}{m}{}} % only here as used in example document % In the body: {\footnotesize \begin{center} \begin{tabular}[pos]{| >{\qfont}c | >{\qfont}c | >{\qfont}c || >{\qfont}c |} \hline {\textbf{YEAR}} & {\textbf{PLATE OFFERINGS}} & {\textbf{ENVELOPES}} & {\textbf{TOTAL}} \\ \hline 1915 & 1,904.86 & 4,587.50 & 6,492.36 \\ \hline 1916 & 2,165.21 & 5,091.24 & 7,256.45 \\ \hline 1917 & 2,259.34 & 5,441.92 & 7,701.35 \\ \hline 1918 & 2,325.87 & 6,877.40 & 9,203.27 \\ \hline 1919 & 2,848.31 & 8,842.37 & 11,690.68 \\ \hline 1920 & 3,188.90 & 10,785.15 & 13,974.05 \\ \hline 1921 & 3,404.60 & 11,069.74 & 14,474.42 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} }

kzrdude 4y ago

What's an example of a good tables package? Thanks

flenserboy 4y ago
Calctab is interesting — https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/calctab/calctab_manual.pdf https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/macros/latex/contrib/calctab/... It's not what it's designed for, but Eledmac has some interesting tabular features — https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eledmac/eledmac.pdf https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/co... There's a good list here — https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12672/which-tabular-packages-do-which-tasks-and-which-packages-conflict https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12672/which-tabular-... Also, with some care, the tabular environment can be made to work very well. Example — % In the preamble: \def\qfont{\usefont{T1}{AlegreyaSans-LF}{m}{}} % only here as used in example document % In the body: {\footnotesize \begin{center} \begin{tabular}[pos]{| >{\qfont}c | >{\qfont}c | >{\qfont}c || >{\qfont}c |} \hline {\textbf{YEAR}} & {\textbf{PLATE OFFERINGS}} & {\textbf{ENVELOPES}} & {\textbf{TOTAL}} \\ \hline 1915 & 1,904.86 & 4,587.50 & 6,492.36 \\ \hline 1916 & 2,165.21 & 5,091.24 & 7,256.45 \\ \hline 1917 & 2,259.34 & 5,441.92 & 7,701.35 \\ \hline 1918 & 2,325.87 & 6,877.40 & 9,203.27 \\ \hline 1919 & 2,848.31 & 8,842.37 & 11,690.68 \\ \hline 1920 & 3,188.90 & 10,785.15 & 13,974.05 \\ \hline 1921 & 3,404.60 & 11,069.74 & 14,474.42 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} }