[PyX-user] making tables in PyX

[William H. <w.h...@as...>]

Hi Michael

On 5/3/07, Michael Hearne <mh...@us...> wrote:
> Since reading your comment, I investigated Latex (which I've never really
> used) a bit more and found that Latex should indeed do what I want.  Sinc=
e
> I'm building a system in Python, and PyX wraps Latex, I'm not sure that t=
his
> is a misuse of PyX...
>

I wouldn't say that PyX "wraps" LaTeX, rather it uses LaTeX to typeset
labels for use in graphs. If you want to use LaTeX in some other
capacity (e.g., making a table), then PyX won't help that much. In
that case, you might as well use LaTeX directly, by which I mean that
your python script would write the .tex file and run pdflatex on it.
The only advantage I see to using PyX in this context is that it frees
you from having to worry about paper sizes and whether your table will
fit. PyX will let you easily scale your table to fit on the page once
you are done, although whether the result will be readable is another
matter.... You could do the same in straight LaTeX too, but it is a
bit trickier.

Alternatively, you could take a look at ReportLab (www.reportlab.org),
which would be a more pythonic solution, albeit without such good
typography IMO.

Cheers

Will


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