Hello. I've posted this to the texhax community, but it is just as likely someone here will be able to help. For the record, I run gnumeric 1.6.3 on a suse 10.2 laptop.
I'm trying to use the latex export from gnumeric to include a table in my latex document. I'd like to label a column with a euro symbol. Although gnumeric will describe currency in euros, the latex export doesn't recognise it and replaces it by a question mark :-( So I tried to use a text string \texteuro in the gnumeric cell. In one of my tables, that generated an unknown command \backslacstexteuro, and I was able to define this in my preamble to actually generate a euro sign. However, in a virtually identical gnumeric spreadsheet, the export plugin generated $\backslash$texteuro which then fails to get recognised as a command. I suspect that this latter behaviour is actually the intended one as far as gnumeric is concerned, as it generates latex that will compile and faithfully treats every character in a string, includine "\", as a string character. I have noticed that the gnumeric export is not always consistent in whether strings get surrounded by $'s or not, and a few other quirks in bold, etc., but this is the first one that is actually causing me grief. In brief, does anyone have any experience in exporting a euro from gnumeric and/or controlling how it handles backslashes and text? Many thanks Steve -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Professor Steven J Schwartz Phone: +44-(0)20-7594-7660 Space and Atmospheric Physics Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-7772 The Blackett Laboratory E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imperial College London Office: Huxley 6M70 London SW7 2BW, U.K. Web: http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~sjs +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
