On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:36 -0700, Gerald Chudyk wrote: > 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.
You just illustrated exactly why it needs to be done. A few steps up from writing postscript? NOBODY writes postscript. :D > > > 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? Or is a book keeper for a small business. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
