Re: TiKZ & exceltex

> Dear Mark thanks for your reply.
>
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Mark Wibrow wrote:
>
>> I really don't know exceltex, but simply by looking at the internals
>> of \inccell using \show,
>
> this sounds interesting, could you explain me how to use \show? just a
> small example will help.
>
>> I predict with some confidence that the approach you are trying will
>> never work.
>
>> Essentially you are trying to input file contents `on-line' whilst the
>> key is being processed which can't be done.
>
> Well, from the little I can understand of LaTeX/TeX pdflatex just mark
> in .aux file which cells are necessary and a perl script extract the
> data from the excel, write them one for a file that will be input in the
> second pdlatex run. So the data are not extracted on-the-fly. I hope
> this gives me some more hope.
>
> In the meanwhile I tracked down the problem as an incompatibility of
> (x)color (that should be used by \draw) and exceltex since if I put the
> data extracted from the excel file somewhere else it works. For example
>
>  \documentclass[10pt,svgnames]{article}
>  \usepackage{color} % used by exceltex
>  \usepackage{exceltex}
>
>  \usepackage{tikz}
>  \usepackage{pgffor}
>
>  \begin{document}
>
>    \begin{tikzpicture}[] {
>            \draw[Gold, line width=.2cm, rounded corners=7pt] (.25cm,.25cm)
> rectangle +(8.5,5.5) node {{\inccell{dati.xls!ECOOP09!C1}}};
>      }
>    \end{tikzpicture}
>    \textcolor{{\inccell{dati.xls!ECOOP09!C1}}}{Hello World!!!}
>  \end{document}
>
> the first occurrence of \inccel works smootly but the second one crashes
> with the message:
>
>  [Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
>  ) ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros (./crap-excltx/c-1)
>  ! Missing \endcsname inserted.
>  <to be read again>
>                     \csname\endcsname
>  l.14 ...ell{dati.xls!ECOOP09!C1}}}{Hello World!!!}
>
>  ?
>
> any more idea?
>
> Cheers
>
> Walter
>
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