LaTeX Table View

A very simple table editor is included in TeXlipse, and it can be activated from Window > Show View > Other > Texlipse > LaTeX Table View.

Even though (La)TeX is a very good typesetting system (editing text is easy), editing and modifying LaTeX tables is a bit cumbersome (for instance, adding a column in the middle of a large table is very tedious). The purpose of the LaTeX Table View is to make table editing a bit easier.

Using the LaTeX Table View

Once a cell has been chosen to be edited, you can navigate trough the cells pressing ctrl + ARROW_KEYs. Right clicking the view gives a popup menu with the following operations:

• Insert row (before)
• Delete row
• Clear all rows
• Move row up
• Move row down
• Duplicate row
• Import selected lines from editor

  Select the data lines from the editor (for instance, the lines between \begin{tabular}{...} and \end{tabular}). The lines are inserted at (and after) the selected line in the editor — new rows are generated if necessary (no rows are overwritten).

  Comments are not imported, i.e. everything after % on a line is ignored, as well as horizontal line commands (\.*line.*) are ignored.

• Export to Clipboard

  The entire contents of the table editor is copied to the clipboard, from which it can be pasted into the document. A few notes about exporting:

  • Empty rows are not exported
  • Empty cells are not exported, except those that are preceding data cells.
    To treat a cell as a real empty cell, insert & to it.

• Raw Export

  The entire contents of the table editor is copied to the clipboard in a raw text format suitable for use in e.g. Gnuplot. The data is separated by tabs and rows by linefeeds. Otherwise, it works like Export to Clipboard above.

A few examples:

1 3 a b c

exports as

1 & 3 \\ a & b & c \\

,

1 & 3 a b c

exports as

1 & & 3 \\ a & b & c \\

and

\multicolumn{2}{c}{1 and 2} 3 a b c

exports as

\multicolumn{2}{c}{1 and 2} & 3 \\ a & b & c \\

.

Tips

1. You can modify columns by first flipping rows and columns and then adding/deleting/inserting rows. After you are ready, then flip the rows and columns again.

2. Use CTRL+KEYPAD_8,_2,_4 and _4 (with numlock on) to calculate the sum of all cells in the same row/column, starting from the cell next to the current. If the cell is not a number, it is ignored. Examples:
   

   1 2 3 last first 5 6 0.5 1 2 3	CTRL+KEYPAD_4	1 2 3 last first 5 6 11 0.5 1 2 3	and
   1 2 3 last first 6 15 0.5 1 2 3	CTRL+KEYPAD_6	1 2 3 last 22.5 5 6 11 0.5 1 2 3