Many universities and engineering sites use a typesetting program called LaTeX. NExS can export a spreadsheet in the form of a LaTeX table to be conveniently brought into LaTeX documents and formatted by the LaTeX program. The default file type is .tex. NExS supports older versions of LaTeX (e.g., LaTeX 2.09) as well as the newer LaTeX 2e. LaTeX 2e provides more detailed control of fonts and font style than do the older versions.
To export an NExS spreadsheet in LaTeX tabular format:
\rule
command) to the LaTeX table that it generates which will
stretch the width of the columns so that they approximate the appearance
of the NExS data area. This row may be deleted to permit LaTeX to format
the column widths as it normally would.
\
) to print
properly in LaTeX. To allow the user maximum flexibility in formatting,
NExS does not attempt to insert its own backslash escapes, except when
exporting numeric cells which are formatted as currency ($), or
percent (%).