On Friday, July 3, 2015 7:39 AM, S. venkataraman <sven...@ignou.ac.in> wrote:
> >I have a naive question? There is a possibility of calling PERL or Python from >latex using perltex package. >Is this possible in xetex? Will this feature be good enough? Hello, Yes it is possible to use perltex with xelatex. The command to call perltex with xelatex is: $ perltex --latex=xelatex YourXeLaTeXFile.tex However, it is necessary to add the following two lines into perltex.pl use utf8; use feature 'unicode_strings'; since XeLaTeX files are UTF-8 encoded. On pages 3-4 of the perlex manual there is an example that prints a table. The Perl macro uses somewhere the expressions $header++ Unfortunately, this does not work when one initially sets $header = "α"; A simple solution to solve this problem is to use the following code: $tabular .= "}{" . $header . "}"; #<---- originally $header++ $header = chr(ord($header)+1); #<---- added to get the effect A.S. ----------------------Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex