Print matrix as html/pdf table

General Usage
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I have a rather wide matrix containing UTF-8 strings. Here’s an example of 6 columns (there are usually more than twice that)

 "Scarabaeus lamarcki"  "First runs from nest"  "1"  "1 🕢"  "0 🕢"  "420 🕢"
 "Coffee beetles"       "First runs from nest"  "2"  "1 🕡"  "1 🕖"  "0 -"  
 "Coffee beetles"       "Sun reflection"        "1"  "2 🕖"  "1 🕖"  "0 -"

I want to convert this to an HTML document (double click and view in a browser) or a PDF (both would be nice, but just one would be fine).
I tried:

  1. Directly parsing the matrix into html text following this post. But then I need to input that into some index.html file.
  2. a few external tools to convert CSV to markdown, and then use pandoc to convert the markdown to whatever. Nice, but UTF8 and table size becomes a bit of an issue.
  3. The Millboard.jl package, cool, but it’s not markdown syntax, and then I run into similar problems as in #2.

All of these options are workable. But am I missing something obvious? Is there a good way to convert a Matrix{String} to a PDF/HTML?

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This worked for me:

  1. print out your matrix into a CSV file with writecsv
  2. run xelatex with the following on your generated CSV file (a.csv in this example):
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
\setmainfont{Symbola}
\begin{document}
\csvautotabular{a.csv}
\end{document}
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