The latest articles on Forem by Senadhi Thimanya (@raemih). https://forem.com/raemih https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3295811%2Fddfe0a24-5db9-4e5c-b02c-3fa2c56acac0.jpeg https://forem.com/raemih en Senadhi Thimanya Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:23:57 +0000 https://forem.com/raemih/whats-easier-learning-latex-tables-or-asking-copilot-cli-for-a-table-code-generating-tool-437p https://forem.com/raemih/whats-easier-learning-latex-tables-or-asking-copilot-cli-for-a-table-code-generating-tool-437p <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/github-2026-01-21">GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>As a second-year undergraduate, I've recently come to face a very annoying situation. When I'm asked to use LaTeX to make the submission PDFs, I just cannot get the Tables right! </p> <p>I've tried so many online LaTeX table editors but it's safe to say that none of them were able to give me a table that would fit perfectly to the page and have an easy to edit code. In the end I had to do research on LaTeX to find the format!!! </p> <p>In that case, this could be called as a Silly idea that came to my head when I saw this challenge. But hey, at least my life would get a bit easier...</p> <h2> Demo </h2> <p>Project Repo: <a href="https://github.com/senadhi-Thimanya/Latex-Table-Genarator-with-Github-Copilot-CLI" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub</a><br> Demo video: <a href="https://youtu.be/dc_pPPnNlzs" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube</a></p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fi9lc5x4urlslrkaggmjd.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fi9lc5x4urlslrkaggmjd.png" alt="The image I need to create" width="477" height="612"></a></p> <p>Since I already had this table created in a .docx file, I transferred it into an excel file and ran the program on it.</p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgmegktc00je83g2punqo.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgmegktc00je83g2punqo.png" alt="Output" width="800" height="467"></a></p> <p>And of course there's an output like this in the terminal along with an <code>output.tex</code> file.</p> <p>After copying the code from the <code>output.tex</code> file I can paste it to my original submission document and it actually looks like this</p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fn6lssozuwu7b38n7e096.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fn6lssozuwu7b38n7e096.png" alt="End result" width="624" height="804"></a></p> <p>No unnecessary pieces of code and easy for me to edit the code in my Original file to match the way I like.</p> <p>Tadaa~</p> <h2> My Experience with GitHub Copilot CLI </h2> <p>If I'm being honest, this is the first CLI based coding assistant I have worked with. It was surprisingly very user friendly and welcoming. I cannot believe that I was able to build this program with just 3 messages! It came out exactly how I needed. Super easy to work with and I absolutely would keep using this!</p> <p>Let me know what you think! Did I make a good tool or is this a flop?</p> devchallenge githubchallenge cli githubcopilot