Hi Christian
I also think that latex is the way to go having to regularly produce
pdfs that are around 50-100+ pages.
Why use powerpoint when you have Beamer or other latex packages to
create a presentation.
You would have done most of the work in the thesis so use what you
have already done.
Presentations can take time in powerpoint and there is
forward/backward compatibility issues with Microsoft.
Everybody has Adobe/Acrobat not all have MS
The key to productivity is to have templates for graphs figures and
tables in your text editor and amend to suit.
For many column tables I use R to produce the column headings as the
centred column headings are a different format to the body
Just a matter of clicking on the template and supplying the column headings.
HTH
Duncan
Duncan Mackay
Department of Agronomy and Soil Science
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
Email: home: mac...@northnet.com.au
At 04:44 14/08/2012, you wrote:
There is grid.table in the gridExtra package
(http://code.google.com/p/gridextra/wiki/tableGrob), but for thesis
tables I think you're better off trying to solve the difficulties
you've been having with xtable. I can also recommend the latex
function in the Hmisc package, which makes it easier to do things like
specify row and column groups.
Best,
Ista
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:46 PM, clangkamp
<christian.langk...@gmxpro.de> wrote:
> Hi, I am wondering whether some of you have a pointer to an alternative.
> I am currently writing my thesis in Latex (several documents), well grown
> over time, I am sure many of you are familiar with the situation.
Likewise I
> am doing the quantitative analysis with R, and again a lot of lines of more
> or less wellwritten code. The outputs are graphs (which one can wonderfully
> integrate as PNG objects into Latex) and tables, where I am not sure. With
> Word / Powerpoint I always go via the CSV path, but CSV
integration with the
> Latex Packages is really cumbersome.
>
> My main point is that there are some packages (xtable, pgfplotstable, ...)
> which sort of do integration, but they require a lot of command
definitions,
> requiring a lot of time to get right and ultimately also
providing much of a
> source for errors. Thus my question is whether you know of any alternative
> how to create pictures or CSV style objects that *easily* integrate into
> LaTeX, keep their format etc.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
>
>
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