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

Quang Minh Nguyen algebraicminh at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 00:32:28 CET 2012 

I'm not sure if it'll work with sanskrit text but it seems to work
with extended latin and CJK, but here's one solution.  You can use
LibreOffice or OpenOffice (so it should work on most platforms) and
download the nifty OpenOffice extension calc2latex.  It's a macro that
converts your spreadsheet to latex formatting.  I'm attaching a
screenshot.

Cheers,
Minh
--
Nguyễn Quang Minh || 阮光明



On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:43 PM,  <xetex-request at tug.org> wrote:

>   2. Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX (A u)
>   3. Re: Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
>      (Zdenek Wagner)
>   4. Re: Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX (A u)
>   5. Re: Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
>      (Herbert Schulz)
>   6. Re: Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
>      (Zdenek Wagner)
>   7. Re: Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
>      (Philip TAYLOR)
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> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 11:48:47 -0500
> From: A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com>
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> 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?
>
> I would appreciate your help
> regards
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> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
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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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> Zden?k Wagner
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 16:27:34 -0500
> From: A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
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> 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 <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:
>>>  http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zden?k Wagner
>> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>>
>>
>>
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> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:36:30 -0600
> From: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
> Message-ID: <ED9134CC-3FFE-473E-98E3-D23B989A0CBA at wideopenwest.com>
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>
> 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 <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>
> 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?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:41:09 +0100
> From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
> Message-ID:
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> 2012/1/8 Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>:
>>
>> 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 <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Zden?k Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:43:07 +0000
> From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk>
> To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX
> Message-ID: <4F0A0DEB.4080106 at Rhul.Ac.Uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
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>
>
> Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Jim Hefferon, him say : "TeX Live       -this package is not in TeX Live-"
> Philip Taylor
>
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