glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell) (10/16/90)
Can anyone tell me where I might find some macros for making tables in TeX? Thank you, Glenn Leavell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn F. Leavell glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu 404-542-3488 Systems Administrator University of Georgia Economics Department. 147 Brooks Hall. Athens, GA 30602
myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) (10/17/90)
In article <1990Oct16.144412.4740@rigel.econ.uga.edu> glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell) writes: > >Can anyone tell me where I might find some macros for making tables in TeX? Try the ruled table macros in the file ruled.tex, available via anonymous ftp from emx.utexas.edu (128.83.1.33) in pub/texsis/tables. There is also documentation in the same directory. -- Eric Myers "Frankie say '\relax'" Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin myers@emx.utexas.edu | myers@utaphy.bitnet | myers@ut-emx.UUCP
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (10/17/90)
There is a package 'stables' from Robert Nilson. How to get stables.tex and stables_doc.tex from the archive at Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University: NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu. Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET usually works. by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between about 20.00 and 0900 UTC). ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] user name: anonymous or ftp password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu) cd /pub don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive, compressed or in any other way contains binary data. get TEX/stables.tex get TEX/stables_doc.tex by mail-server: send the following message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf): begin path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS) send TEX/stables.tex send TEX/stables_doc.tex end The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you first issue the request: send HELP -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')
glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell) (10/23/90)
In article <1990Oct16.144412.4740@rigel.econ.uga.edu>, I wrote: >Can anyone tell me where I might find some macros for making tables in TeX? I would like to thank all who responded. Here is a brief summary of what I learned. stables ------- Robert Nilssson has written a table macro package called S-Tables. Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> let me know that you can obtain this package by anonymous ftp from archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]. Get the files TEX/stables.tex, TEX/stables_doc.tex, and TEX/s_verbatim.tex. Piet also explains how you can obtain these files through a mail-server: >send the following message to >mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf): > > begin > path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS) > send TEX/stables.tex > send TEX/stables_doc.tex > end > >The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your >message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you >first issue the request: > send HELP ruled.tex --------- Eric Myers <myers@emx.utexas.edu,myers@utaphy.bitnet,myers@ut-emx.UUCP> let me know about his package, ruled.tex. The following is from his README file: > RULED TABLES. > > The file ruled.tex contains a set of macros which can be used to typeset > tables with vertical and horizontal rules. The syntax is the same > as for Ray Cowan's macros TABLES.TEX, as described in TABELDOC.TEX, > and I have used some of Cowan's tricks, but most of the macros > are complete re-writes. To use these macros in place of Cowan's > simply copy them to a file called TABLES.TEX or use a link. Eric also states in his documentation that his tables are different internally than Cowan's, and that they run about 5 times faster. You can receive ruled.tex and related documentation by anonymous ftp from emx.utexas.edu [128.83.1.33] in pub/texsis/tables. T2D4 and TaBlEs --------------- John Yee <yee@seas.ucla.edu> told me about two packages that are available at a cost: >I know of two: Tables to Die for (T2D4) by Michael Spivak. > It was available from PCTeX for about $80.00 >Then there is TaBlEs again from them for $79.00. >They are both macro packages and so useable on any machine. >PCTeX is at pti@well.sf.ca.us general ------- Raymond Chen <raymond@math.berkeley.edu> also told me about two general TeX sites that allow anonymous ftp: >sun.soe.clarkson.edu has a formidable archive of TeX materials. >ymir.claremont.edu has a simply mind-boggling archive of same. Again, thanks to everyone who responded, Glenn ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn F. Leavell glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu 404-542-3488 Systems Administrator University of Georgia Economics Department. 147 Brooks Hall. Athens, GA 30602