creating & printing formatted tables in linux

Lakki · 03-30-2010, 02:17 AM

Hi,

We are using RHEL 5.3 version. We would like to create a table and print it in linux.For multilingual support, we have refined ourselves to use unicode supported translator like u2ps, paps or lasiprint

Is there any tool to create the table in linux, so that it automatically adjusts the cell widht and height based on the entries. Also can it be easily converted into postscript format without losing its format.

Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestions!

Lakshmi

evo2 · 03-30-2010, 03:29 AM

Latex.

Code:

% cat foo.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}\hline
    foo & bar & baz\\ \hline
    fooooo & barrrrrrrrr& baaz\\ \hline
    fooo & \huge{barrrrrrrrr}& baaz \\ \hline
    \large{fooooo} & barrrrrr& bz \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}
% pdflatex foo.tex

See the attached pdf file.

If you want ps instead of pdf you'd run

Code:

% latex foo.tex
% dvips foo.dvi

Cheers,

Evo2.

Lakki · 03-30-2010, 06:46 AM

Hi, Please clarify my understanding!
I should have the latex or pdflatex installed on my system to create a document with formatted table is it?

evo2 · 03-30-2010, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lakki

I should have the latex or pdflatex installed on my system to create a document with formatted table is it?

Correct.

Evo2.