Robert Himmelmann wrote:
I can however say that planmaker is better than kspread, which is
dowright unusable (and that's putting it exceedingly politely), and
LaTeX, which will get you into a mental institution before you're done
making a functional spreadsheet.
Yes, I have almost experienced that. There is however one area where
LaTeX is easier to use than kspread or oocalc and probably planmaker. I
once wrote a small programme a bit like MyOB but much, much simpler. I
needed to somehow format my journals, ledgers and reports nicely. I
wrote some code that generated a few .tex files and then compiled them.
I don't think there is any other (easy) way to this.
Now that OOo 2.0 (and others) are moving towards the XML-based open
document specification (or whatever it's called), your program can use
it as output for a document or a spreadsheet. Then, you can call OOo to
print your stuff (I don't know, can OOo be used in batch mode? Probably)
I'd probably still output LaTeX though :-)
Cheers,
Carl.
