limitations in as_latex

[dsliwka]

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Question

Many people miss a unified package in python to generate estimation tables for academic papers. It would be great to build on GT to have this (and indeed we used GT to generate beautiful HTML tables here) but the limitations in GT’s as_latex method currently make it impossible to implement standard regression or descriptive statistics tables (also for use in quarto documents or with overleaf). In particular the implementation of rowname_col and groupname_col in as_latex would be extremely valuable for this purpose. I kindly wanted to ask whether there are any plans for this?

[rich-iannone]

Thanks @dsliwka for opening this issue. Totally agree that as_latex() could use a second pass to make its outputs as good as the HTML. I'm also doing some work on incorporating .tab_footnote() into LaTeX outputs, so, I see the pieces missing (like rowname_col and groupname_col support) as an extension of that work!

[dsliwka]

Thanks for the quick reply!

[rich-iannone]

Closing this in favor of the new issue: #783