Gams code in LaTeX documents

Edson Valle recently wrote a style for the package listings from LaTeX. It allows you to format Gams code nicely in your LaTeX documents.
Here is a small example taken from his post to the Gams mailing list:
Scalar X /1/;
Scalar Y;
Y = 2*X;
Display “This is the famous Y”, Y;
In your LaTeX document this would look like:
The only thing you have to do is write a file gams.tex with the style and include this file in your LaTeX document before \begin{document}.
Information on the package Listings can be found here: listings
The gams.tex file should
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Excel-Addin for converting Excel tables to LaTeX tables

Although I am not a great fan of the Microsoft software, I have to admit that Excel is great. Sending tables from Excel to Word is easy but I work in LaTeX and then it can be time consuming. Fortunately there is a nice add-in for Excel that allows you to copy your Excel table to LaTeX. It is called Excel2LaTeX and developed by Joachim Marder and Andrew Hawryluk and can be downloaded from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/excel2latex/. I tested it with Excel 2010 and it works fine.
 
When you download the file Excel2LaTeX.xla you can either open it when you
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