From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/66090 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: using ConTeXt/LuaTeX instead of a spreadsheet program Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:41:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4D5C1A77.8020608@wxs.nl> References: <1297878435.3729.38.camel@mattotaupa> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297881795 10698 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2011 18:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Menzel To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Feb 16 19:43:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpmL9-0007y4-LB for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7717CCA977; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:43:03 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qQJ+B8W4DapZ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:42:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494E4CA9F0; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:42:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7C1CA977 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:42:38 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3AkdywbS+dba for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:42:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (filter5-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.73]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6A4CA9F0 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:42:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter5-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p1GIgItU024735 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:42:18 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.1c2) with ESMTP id 5180-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:42:07 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 In-Reply-To: <1297878435.3729.38.camel@mattotaupa> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0BE8GGiTb - cc9ce713f4aa - 20110216 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.73 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:66090 Archived-At: 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) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________