[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /xml lonlatextable.pm

[foxr]

foxr		Wed Aug 18 12:04:31 2010 EDT

  Added files:                 
    /loncom/xml	lonlatextable.pm 
  Log:
  First stabs at getting a replacement for LaTeX::Table...much more coding to do.
  
  

Index: loncom/xml/lonlatextable.pm
+++ loncom/xml/lonlatextable.pm
#  Generating TeX tables.
#
# $Id: lonlatextable.pm,v 1.1 2010/08/18 12:04:31 foxr Exp $
# 
#
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## Copyright for TtHfunc and TtMfunc by Ian Hutchinson. 
# TtHfunc and TtMfunc (the "Code") may be compiled and linked into 
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# distributed are hereby licensed only for use in the context
# of a program or computational system for which the Licensee is the 
# primary author or distributor, and which performs substantial 
# additional tasks beyond the translation of (La)TeX into HTML.
# The C source of the Code may not be distributed by the Licensee
# to any other parties under any circumstances.
#

# This module is a support packkage that helps londefdef generate
# LaTeX tables using the LaTeX::Table package.  A prerequisite is that
# the print generator must have added the following to the LaTeX 
#
#  \usepackage{xtab}
#  \usepackage{booktabs}
#  \usepackage{array}
#  \usepackage{colortbl}
#  \usepackage{xcolor}
#
#  These packages are installed in the packaged LaTeX distributions we know of as of
#  11/24/2008
#


# 
#  This module provides a sub-set substitute for LaTeX::table 
#  which is a great module but unfortunately not usable in safe space
#  


=pod

=head1  NAME

Apache:lonltextable

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use Apache::lonlatextable;

    $table = Apache::lonlatextable->new();
    $table->set_caption("some text");
    $table->set_data(cell_descriptions);
    $table->{'coldef'} = column_definitions;
    $table->generate_string();

=head1 DETAILS

=cut

package Apache::lonlatextable;
use strict;

=pod

=head2 new

Creates a new instance of a lonlatextable.  The returned value should be used on the left side of the
-> for further calls to object methods

=head3 Example:
   
    my $latexTable = &Apache::lonlatextable->new();

=cut


sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;

    my $self = {
	caption           => '',
	data              => [],
	coldef            =>  '',
	
    };
    bless($self, $class);
    return $self;
}

=pod

=head2 set_caption(some_text)

Set the table caption value.  If this string is empty, the table will be generated without a caption.
some_text will be the  new table caption value.

=head3 Example:

    $table = Apache::lonlatextable->new();
    $table->set_caption("Some very interesting table");

=cut

sub set_caption {
    my ($self, $caption) = @_;
    $self->{'caption'} = $caption;
}

=pod

=head2 set_data(cell_descriptions)

Sets the table cell data.  Table data in its simplest is an aray of arrays.  Each outer 
array element is a table row. However:
  
=over 3

=item Single column rows sarting with \

These are treated as LaTeX/TeX commands and, when the table is generated, 
passed without interpretation.

=item Empty cells

These produce a horizontal rule that spans the width of the table.

=back

=head3 Example

    $table->set_data([ ['Gnu', '92.52'], [], ['Emu', '33.33'] ]);

Produces
    +--------------+--------------+
    |   Gnu        | 92.52        |
    +--------------+--------------+ (due to the empty row).
    |   Emu        | 33.33        |
    +--------------+--------------+

=cut

sub set_data {
    my ($self, $data) = @_;
    $self->{'data'}  = $data;

}

=pod

=head2 Column  definitions.

The hash value 'coldef' can overide the column definitions computed by default for the table.

=head3 Example

    $table->{'coldef'} = 'lrcr';

Produces table header output of:

    \begin{tabular}{lrcr}

The default is to produce a set of left aligned columns.  The number of columns produced
will be determined by the size of the longest row.

=cut

=pod

=head2   $table->generate_string()

Generates the LaTeX for the table as a string that is returned to the caller.

=head3 Example

    $latex = $table->generate_string();

=cut

sub generate_string {

    my ($self) = @_;
    my $result;

    $result  = $self->table_header();
    $result .= $self->table_body();
    $result .= $self->table_trailer();



    return $result;
}
 

###################################################################################
#
#  Private methods:
#

#  generate the table header.
#  If coldef is an empty string, the default column definition is computed instead.
#
sub table_header()
{
    my ($self) = @_;
    my $result = 'begin{tabular}[';
    my $coldef = $self->{'coldef'};

    if ($coldef eq '') {
	my @rows   = @$self->{'data'};
	my $longest = 0;
	foreach my $row (@rows) {
	    my $length = scalar @{$row};
	    if ($length > $longest) {
		$longest = $length;
	    }
        } 
	# $longest cells all left aligned.
	# There's got to be a better way than this in perl?

	for (my $i =0; $i < $longest; $i++) {
	    $coldef .= 'l';
	}
    }
    
    $result .= $coldef . '}';
    $result .= "\n";

    return $result;
}
#
#   Generate the table body
#
sub table_body()
{
    return '';
}

#
#  Generate the table trailer
#
sub table_trailer {
    my ($self) = @_;

    my $result = '\end{tabular}' . "\n";
    if ($self->{'caption'} ne '') {
	$result .= '\caption{' . $self->{'caption'} . '}' . "\n";
    }
    return $result;
}



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