On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:10:38 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What are you thingking about ? LaTeX or something like that ? Not usefull > for > "common" user to manage the document in my point of view .... Well, LaTeX has a longer learning curve than does OpenOffice, especially if you're used to doing word processing rather than text processing or text editing. But unless your master documents are going to be overly fancy with respect to fonts (and even that is doable in LaTeX), tables, and the like, then doing it in LaTeX or some other text file format is giong to be easier -- simply because it's easier to manipulate text in plain text format than it is to manipulate it in a word processor file format. It's rather simple, for instance, to automate this process with shell[1] or perl scripts, if you use a text file. In fact, the shell script can be its own letter, and you just use shell variables for items such as name, address, city etc. Then, the operator would only need to fill in a few fields on a web form, and your backend would generate the script or whatever, and send it to the printer.. [1] Unix Power Tools has a simple example, but I don't have the book handy right now to cite it. As I recall, it's basically uses back ticks and here documents the whole thing right to lpr. But you lose fancy formatting, which might not be what you want -- sales letters usually are crammed full of that sort of thing. > Hervé -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
