I'd like to announce a major new release for Taro - the Julia utility belt for working with document formats.
Taro now features a new API to read and write excel files. Earlier, you could only dump the contents of a sheet into a dataframe. Now you can read and write data cell by cell. This also allows you to read in an excel template, and fill in certain cells from the results of a Julia computation. Since v0.2, Taro has had the ability to generate PDF files from xsl-fo. This allows you to dynamically create professional looking PDF reports from within Julia. Finally, the package now has some nice looking documentation, thanks to Documenter and mkdocs. More here : http://aviks.github.io/Taro.jl/