LaTeX-Table version 0.9.13

This module supports multipage tables via the xtab package.  For publication
quality tables it utilizes the booktabs package. It also supports the tabularx
and tabulary packages for nicer fixed-width tables. Furthermore, it supports
the colortbl package for colored tables optimized for presentations.  The
powerful new ctable package is supported and especially recommended when
footnotes are needed. LaTeX::Table ships with some predefined, good looking
themes.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

    perl Build.PL
    ./Build
    ./Build test
    ./Build install


Alternatively, to install with ExtUtils::MakeMaker, you can use the following
commands:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install


Now start the script generate_examples.pl in the examples directory of this
distibution. 

    perl generate_examples.pl
    
This script generates some LaTeX files with some example tables.
Now please compile these examples with LaTeX and check if all tables look ok:

    latex examples.tex 
    xdvi examples.dvi 
    

PROGRAMS

This module ships with two small utilities. The first, csv2pdf is a CSV to PDF
converter. It is only about 100 lines of code short and only meant as an 
example application, but it is already very powerful. It requires Getopt::Long,
Text::CSV, LaTeX::Encode and LaTeX::Driver, which are not installed during the
installation of this module. 

The second utility is ltpretty. It takes a lazy formatted LaTeX table from 
STDIN (typically piped from Vim or emacs) and outputs a completely formatted
table. This makes this module not only useful for automatically generated
reports, but also saves a lot of typing work in creating custom tables.


DEPENDENCIES

Carp
Class::Std
English
Readonly
Scalar::Util
Text::Wrap

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2006-2009, Markus Riester

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.