[XeTeX] Import Sanskrit Text from CSV or Excel to XeLaTeX

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, A u wrote:

> I among windows user can you tell me a way to do in Linux or Mac OSX?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jan 8, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 2012/1/8 A u <akupadhyayula at gmail.com>:
>>> I am trying to import text from Excel or CSV to Latex.
>>> It works great when the text is in English. I am using exceltex to do that.
>>> However when I put "Sanskrit" Text in the spreadsheet and import it to
>>> excel, it bring only " ???" in place of the sanskrit text.
>>> Is it possible to do?
>>> 
>> Exceltex assumes Latin1 and thus can only work with western languages.
>> You have to modify the script. Remove my $ENCODING = "latin1"; and
>> insert use utf8; instead. I am not sure that it is enough, there are
>> some tricks with encoding of the output files. There is some
>> information in the manual but I am not a Windows user and do not have
>> Excel so that I cannot try.
>> 
>>> I would appreciate your help
>>> regards

Howdy,

Another inquiry... I've got TL2011, via the MacTeX installer, with all updates and there is no exceltex program or package. Is that a Windows only item?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)