[OS X TeX] Insert a column

[B. Ludvigsen]

Emacs has some pretty simple commands that do this instantaneously. 

- Børre


On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:05:04PM -0600, Chris Goedde wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
> 
> >Is there a way (other than by hand) to insert a new column in a 9  
> >column table (with a couple of hundred rows) that is already partly  
> >filled-in?
> 
> Do you have excel? My first thought is to paste the body of the table  
> into a plain text file, import that file into excel (making the right  
> choices in the import wizard), adding a column or two in excel, then  
> re-exporting. That may or may not work depending on the contents of  
> your table.
> 
> Someone really good a sed or awk (not me!) could probably write a  
> small script to do this as well, again depending on the table contents.
> 
> Some editors allow a "column" selection that could also work. BBEdit  
> might do this; I'm not sure.
> 
> Chris
> 
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