[XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/1/8 Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>:
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> On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, A u wrote:
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>> I among windows user can you tell me a way to do in Linux or Mac OSX?
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>> Regards
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Jan 8, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 2012/1/8 A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com>:
>>>> 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
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> Howdy,
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> 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?
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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,
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> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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