Here’s one thing I know: I love Emacs, LaTeX, and matrices.
I often find myself typesetting matrices, and it’s a huge pain. I’m just not good at hitting the ‘&’ character.
To mitigate my suffering (#firstworldproblems), I wrote a few lines of Lisp that will allow me to use orgtbl-mode to typeset matrices. If you’re not familiar with orgtbl-mode and how it can improve your life, check this out for a simple LaTeX table example.
With the below code somewhere in your Emacs init file, you can use the much simpler org-mode table shortcuts to create a table, and then have that immediately exported to a LaTeX bmatrix environment.
Check out the cool behavior with matrices pasted from MATLAB. You’ll definitely want to bump this up to 720p.
To typeset a matrix from MATLAB copy it to your clipboard and do the following:
M-x orgtbl-mode (if you don’t have orgtbl-mode in your LaTeX mode hook)
M-x orgtbl-insert-matrix
Paste your matrix
C-x C-x (which exchages point and mark to easily select pasted text)
C-c | (orgtbl-create-or-convert-from-region)
C-c C-c (to perform the export)
That’s it!
Here’s the code.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 | (defun orgtbl-to-latex-matrix (table params) "Convert the Orgtbl mode TABLE to a LaTeX Matrix." (interactive) (let* ((params2 (list :tstart (concat "\\[\n\\begin{bmatrix}") :tend "\\end{bmatrix}\n\\]" :lstart "" :lend " \\\\" :sep " & " :efmt "%s\\,(%s)" :hline "\\hline"))) (orgtbl-to-generic table (org-combine-plists params2 params)))) (defun orgtbl-insert-matrix () "Insert a radio table template appropriate for this major mode." (interactive) (let* ((txt orgtbl-latex-matrix-string) name pos) (setq name (read-string "Table name: ")) (while (string-match "%n" txt) (setq txt (replace-match name t t txt))) (or (bolp) (insert "\n")) (setq pos (point)) (insert txt) (previous-line) (previous-line))) (defcustom orgtbl-latex-matrix-string "% BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL %n % END RECEIVE ORGTBL %n \\begin{comment} #+ORGTBL: SEND %n orgtbl-to-latex-matrix :splice nil :skip 0 \\end{comment}\n" "Template for the latex matrix orgtbl translator All occurrences of %n in a template will be replaced with the name of the table, obtained by prompting the user." :type 'string :group 'org-table) |