installation
npm install latex-table
dependencies
Booktabs: the output from this library uses the tags \toprule, \midrule, \bottomrule which are specific to the Booktabs library. This may or may not have come standard with your LaTeX installation. If not, you can add it.
usage
latex_table = require "latex-table"
columns = [
{title: "ID#", property: "id", align: "l"}
{title: "Name", property: "name", align: "l"}
{title: "Amount", property: "amount", align: "r"}
]
data = [
{id: 1, name: "Tom", amount: 100}
{id: 2, name: "Joe", amount: 250}
{id: 3, name: "Harry", amount: 75}
]
output = latex_table
columns: columns
data: data
title: "My Table Caption"
console.log "output: ", output
using output
the output text is a latex snippet that can be included within a larger document via an \input such as
\documentclass[a4paper,titlepage]{book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents \newpage
\input{path/to/some/file}
\input{path/to/another/file}
\input{path/to/a/latex-table/snippet}
\end{document}
TODO
-
column alignment on decimal point
-
decouple from a particular table package (booktabs, tabular, tabularx, longtable)
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optional vertical rules