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What is it anyway?
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LATEX.MSCRIPT contains an Mscript program to export (any part of) a Mesa-2 spreadsheet as a simple LaTeX table.

Note that LATEX.MSCRIPT contains some Mscript functions that have only been available since Mesa 2 revision 2.20.

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This is important!
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The Mesa-2 LaTeX script is freeware. 

So, strictly speaking, you should not expect this program to do anything else than to decrease the amount of free memory in your computer. Since you don't pay anything for this program, that is actually already a bit of feature overkill... ;-)

Anyway, please send me a note if you find that Mesa-2 LaTeX doesn't work as you think it should. If possible, please attach an example file that illustrates the problem.

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The most recent revision
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I will upload any future revisions of Mesa-2 LaTeX to Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/ or ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) only.

I have no particular preferences for Hobbes though, except that it's one of the better known OS/2 software servers in that part of the world where I presently happen to live.

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The files
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In the mesa2-latex directory:

README        - This file
LATEX.MSCRIPT - The program

In the mesa2-latex\pgp directory:

README.SIG - My PGP signature for README
LATEX.SIG  - My PGP signature for LATEX.MSCRIPT

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How to use it
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Mesa 2 requires that any script you want to run against the data in a file, is itself part of that file. So, you need to copy the content of LATEX.MSCRIPT into each Mesa 2 file where you want to use it. 

Instead of copying the script into each file manually, you could also set up a template, either as an OS/2 file template (see OS/2 help) or a Mesa 2 template file (see Mesa 2 help).

There are several ways to add a new script page to a Mesa 2 file:
- Press Ctrl-Shift-A
- Right mouse click on page tabs and select "Add script"
- Select "File"->"Workbook"->"Add script"

I suggest that you rename the new script page to "LaTeX". To rename a script page, you need to press the Alt key while you click with the left mouse button on this page's tab. In Mesa 2 this will open a Selection Manager window, in which you can change the page's name in the "Name:" field.

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The author
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Rolf Lochbuehler <rolf@together.net>
http://homepages.together.net/~rolf

To get my PGP public key, send me an empty email with "send pgp key" in the subject line.





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