LTPRETTY(1p)

👑 LTPRETTY(1p) 👑

okay so bestie, welcome to ltpretty — straight out of the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual (yep, that's the 1p in the header 💅). It's a tiny little script with one job, and it does that job flawlessly. Let's get into it. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ltpretty — Use LaTeX::Table from within your text editor. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ltpretty < lazytable

that's it. that's the whole thing. she's a filter, she's a vibe, she reads and she writes. 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This program takes a lazy formatted LaTeX table from STDIN — typically piped in from Vim or emacs, iykyk — and outputs a completely formatted table. literally glow-up central. you give her the messy version, she gives you the iconic version. 🌈

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✨ LAZY FORMAT ✨

here's the deal, okay:

• The first line must contain the LaTeX::Table options, separated by semicolons ";", written in the format optionname=value. ⭐
• The second line must contain the header. 📋
• The lines after that are the data. 📊
• Columns are separated by &. 🎀
• Trailing empty lines are ignored (she's not gonna judge you for that).
• Other empty lines generate horizontal rules (as in LaTeX::Table). 🔥

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

theme=Meyrin;label=test;position=htb
Item:2c & Price
Gnat& per gram& 13.65
& each& 0.01

Gnu& stuffed& 92.59
Emu& stuffed& 33.33
Armadillo& frozen& 8.99

see how the blank line in the middle is doing so much work? that's the horizontal rule moment. main character behavior fr fr. 💅

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💜 VIM 💜

1. Select the text in "VISUAL LINE" mode ("shift+v"). 👀
2. Type "!ltpretty". ⌨️

and boom. that's it. that's the whole workflow bestie. 🫶

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🧚 EMACS 🧚

1. Select the text. ✂️
2. Press "alt+|". ⌨️
3. Now "Shell command on region" should appear. Type "ltpretty". 💫

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🌈 OUTPUT 🌈

 % theme=Meyrin;label=test;position=htb
 % Item:2c & Price
 % Gnat& per gram& 13.65
 % & each& 0.01
 %
 % Gnu& stuffed& 92.59
 % Emu& stuffed& 33.33
 % Armadillo& frozen& 8.99

\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{llr}
\toprule
\multicolumn{2}{c}{Item} & Price \\
\midrule
Gnat      & per gram & 13.65 \\
          & each     & 0.01  \\
\midrule
Gnu       & stuffed  & 92.59 \\
Emu       & stuffed  & 33.33 \\
Armadillo & frozen   & 8.99  \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{test}
\end{table}

not her keeping your whole original input as % comments at the top so you can still see what you typed 😭 that's so thoughtful actually. and then the actual formatted table underneath. she ate and left no crumbs. 👑

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🎀 CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT 🎀

ngl, "ltpretty" does not support configuration files or environment variables. zero settings, zero secrets, zero hidden knobs. what you see is what you get. 🙈

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🦋 DEPENDENCIES 🦋

• LaTeX::Table — she cannot function without it, periodt. 💖

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💀 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS 💀

okay let's be real for a sec:

• Our lazy format does not support multi-line headers. just add the other header lines afterwards yourself, bestie. 🫠
• More importantly: it currently does not support non-scalar LaTeX::Table options, like for example "columns_like_header". A future version may add this functionality. (fingers crossed 🤞)

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-latex-table@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org>. she wants your feedback, fr fr. 💌

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📜 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (c) 2006-2010, "<limaone@cpan.org>".

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic. 🫶

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⚠️ DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY ⚠️

bestie this is the scary part. read it. it's giving legally binding. 😭

BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION. 💀

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE AS PERMITTED BY THE ABOVE LICENSE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE SOFTWARE TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. 😭

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okay that's the whole page, you're officially educated 💅 this lil cutie ships as part of perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-15, and yes she is literally called LTPRETTY(1p). go format some tables bestie, you got this. 🎀✨🦋