Re: automation -- or, escaping the GUI

[Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:35:14AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Automated spreadsheet]
> What tools are available for doing something like this?
[...]

I'm not aware of any existing tools to do this, but I'd choose Perl for
the job. If you really don't want to go down the LaTeX road (which was
my first thought, actually...), another option might be HTML.
Advantage: Perl's CGI module has a lot of helpful functions to produce
HTML pages, which makes programming a bit easier. In addition, to get a
good printout (though not quite as professional as LaTeX), you can then
run the result through "html2ps" (can be found at
http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html) which will produce a nicely laid
out postscript file (incl. page numbers and the likes).
As html2ps is a commandline tool as well, it should be possible to
automate the whole process.

My EUR0.02,

Thomas
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