From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: using ConTeXt/LuaTeX instead of a spreadsheet program
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:41:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5C1A77.8020608@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297878435.3729.38.camel@mattotaupa>
On 16-2-2011 6:47, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear ConTeXt folks,
>
>
> could you please share your experiences with or point me to a resource
> dealing with the following issue.
>
> I need to evaluate some physics experiments where I have some values
> which got measured. I thought I could use ConTeXt with LuaTeX to do all
> the calculations instead of the calculator and enter the results by hand
> or a spreadsheet program.
>
> Would I enter the values (not many) at the top of the TeX document and
> refer to them in the other places? Is an extra file a better approach?
I would put them in a lua table and access them when needed (you can
load that table from an external file)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-16 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-16 17:47 Paul Menzel
2011-02-16 17:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-16 18:41 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-02-16 22:46 ` Martin Schröder
2011-02-17 6:07 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-02-16 19:11 ` Vnpenguin
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