RE: Creating "Pretty" Report from Octave

[Ian Journeaux]

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From: Jaroslav Hajek [mailto:address@hidden 
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To: Ian Journeaux
Cc: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Creating "Pretty" Report from Octave

2010/6/7 Ian Journeaux <address@hidden>:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaroslav Hajek [mailto:address@hidden
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> To: Ian Journeaux
> Cc: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Creating "Pretty" Report from Octave
>
> 2010/6/7 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
>> On 7 June 2010 10:36, Ian Journeaux <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> The report I am trying to create would be one or two pages long. I would
>>> like to get a header (Title, sample ID, etc) and footer (page number,
> date,
>>> etc). The body of the report would be several columns of numbers with
> column
>>> headers.
>>
>> I still think you're best off using LaTeX for this. The fancyhdr
>> package should help you get the formatting you want in the headers and
>> footers. As Francesco suggests, you can program the LaTeX generation
>> from within Octave.
>
>
>>I have a nice function matrix2latex (based on a func from Matlab
>>central) for this purpose, that I used several times to generate
>>report tables. I can share if you're interested.
>
> I would love to see it. Thanks for the offer.
>
>

>Here goes. It is based on the original code of M. Koehler, but all
>inner loops are vectorized or replaced by more efficient constructs,
>and it supports rowformats and columnformats options. Also, it can
>take an open file handle instead of a file name.
>The docstring is not yet texinfoed.

>Typical usage looks like this:

<< clipped code>>

>I suggest you read a LaTeX tutorial if you're a novice. It takes time
>to learn, but pays off a hundred times if you're into this sort of
>work. Imagine the nightmare of automatic creation of Word or Excel
>documents (yes, I used to do that, too, and I loved LaTeX ever since).


I am a absolute noob with both Octave and LaTeX. I just need to get the
results of the Octave analysis into a printed report. LaTeX may be the
answer but it is a very different paradigm than I am use to so, as you
indicate the learning curve may be high. I am not sure I would have use
beyond this project. I do appreciate the insight though.