On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:09:07AM -0500, Jay wrote:
> What I do, that works very well, is to use perl to format data as
> LaTeX documents and then use pdflatex or TeXshop's visual editor to
> render the pdfs. You can even just drop a "system('pfdlatex')" at the
> end of the perl script. If you don't already know LaTeX, you can
> learn enough for this project in the time it takes to download
> TeXshop, or the LaTeX binaries from fink or ports.
I'll second that. Using LaTeX you'll get damned fine looking documents
too.
I used to use Lyx to generate outline documents, which I then edited to
put my content in, so I had a template for an invoice, a template for my
CV, a template for ...
I see the perl Template Toolkit being quite useful for this if you want
to automate it.
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