Hi Rich When I started using Scrivener, I didn't know about gnumeric or spreadtab, but I've had Scrivener to hand (for about 30 years) and I used it to do spreadsheety arithmetic in plain text files and in the last 10 years in .tex files. This made it possible for me to have typeset documents containing the results of calculations that Scrivener had worked in the .tex files. I suppose you use that which you are most used to get the job done in the easiest way.
Cheers & Merry Christmas Grahame On 24 December 2017 at 17:10, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote: > >> I don't use Lyx for invoices or any documents with calculations in them. >> Instead I use Latex usually (depending on what I am doing) with the letter >> class adapted for window envelopes and my header. Latex takes care of the >> typesetting and a program called Scrivener looks after the arithmetic. > > > Grahame, > > Business A/P checks are processed and printed from GnuCash; personal > checks are hand-written. All business invoices are LyX letters for > professional services. When a project is on a retainer basis I invoice the > initial retainer amount and provide a montly statement of the account, now > using the KOMA-Script article class with spreadtab and longtable. When the > retainer needs replenishing I send another letter invoice along with the > statement. Other than A/P vendor payments which are physical checks sent via > snail-mail, all other documents are transmitted as PDF attachements to > e-mail messages. (I even recycle the bits!) > > I recently learned that I could use gnumeric to track retainer payments > and draws and have the results automatically reflected in the LyX article's > table, but that involves another application. The spreadtab package will do > the calculations directly. > > Happy holidays, > > Rich > > >
