LaTeX-Table version 0.9.8

This module supports multipage tables via the xtab package.  For publication
quality tables it utilizes the booktabs package. It also supports the tabularx
package 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) 2006-2008, Markus Riester

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