At 15:41 2000-01-24 +0000, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:35:14AM -0600,
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>[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.
I tried html2ps and it does what I need. I've done enough CGI with perl
that I can generate HTML from a database while half alseep ;-) You can
control some of the page layout stuff in the html2ps config file
(~/.html2psrc).
Tony
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