On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:24 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: >> Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> >> > I firmly believe we need to eliminate Latex or at least not make it a >> > requirement and move to more modern technologies to generate invoices. >> >> What? Why? LaTeX produces beautiful output and makes it easy >> to customize the printed results. > > No it doesn't (the easy part). Again, "at least not make it a > requirement". > >> What do you propose to use instead? >> > > Probably good old fashion CSS or XSLT. > > Latex may be great for you but if I walk into an office and say, "Sue, > here is how you customize templates" and its tex? I might as well walk > back out, cause she will have none of it. > Hopefully in the future there are enough templates to choose from, and at a sufficient level of completeness that Sue doesn't need to customize much. If she can create sophisticated spreadsheets from Excel templates and build Access databases on a whim, then LaTeX should be manageable. It is, after all, a few steps up from writing postscript. Of course the templates need to be clearly written and contain many lines of something called...uhm...'comments'.
> We *need* at least as an option to provide simple, easy to modify, > preferably from the browser, templates. > > I don't really care what we use. As long as there are reports designed for printing. I do not mean the screen dumps that seem to pervade this application. Maybe Joshua is on to something with XSLT. Maybe then the stuff could be sent to a good report generator or spreadsheet for formatting and printing. I bet Sue is expected to know how to use a spreadsheet. She does work in the accounting department, right? Gerald. p.s. Apologies to Sue if I have mistreated her in any way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
