DANTE meeting 2017 in Zeuthen
Right now, from March 22 until March 24, the DESY in Zeuthen near Berlin hosts the meeting of the German speaking TeX users group DANTE.
I travelled yesterday evening with the train to Berlin and then to Zeuthen. The DESY is just a few minutes away from the train station. I stay in the “Seehotel Zeuthen” right at the see. There was an informal gathering at 7pm in the “Ristorante Cafe Peperosa”. Due to my late arrival, and because I travelled in the morning from Triest/Italy to Hamburg before taking the train to Berlin, I did not went there.
The registration started at 8:30, at 9:00 Dr. Johannes Knapp started with an introduction about DESY, its history and current projects, from particle physics and colliders up to photon science.
Uwe Ziegenhagen then made a workshop about using LaTeX and Python together. He provided an introduction to the script language Python, to syntax basics such as strings, lists, dictionaries (key-value pairs) up to flow control and functions.
He considered both directions of integration:
- Generating LaTeX-Code by a Python program
- Using Python within a LaTeX document
He showed practical examples:
- Generating tables based on calculated data, output is LaTeX with booktabs
- Data processing with pandas
- Reading and writing CSV and Excel files
- Using the template engine jinja2
- Automated generation of donation receipts with pandas
All example codes and the presentation slides in German can be downloaded here: https://github.com/UweZiegenhagen/PythonAndLaTeX
Now it’s lunch break. More to see in the afternoon!
