On 16-2-2012 12:03, Martin wrote:
Admittedly I feel a bit lost when looking at the various processing
modules...
My goal is to create template based output. I have created a rough
mail-merge example (with LibreOffice) and attached it as PDF for
illustration.
There is a CSV database with currently 8 fields, probably a few more
will be added. These fields need to be placed into a form, in my example
a list of courses. Other forms based on the same data should follow.
These forms/lists will then be printed.
Hope that makes sense. Maybe I'm pushing the database module a bit to
far, but I was just trying to avoid "mail-merges"...
\starttext
\startluacode
-- or: str = io.loaddata(somefile)
local str = [[
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h
]]
local list = string.splitlines(str)
for i=1,#list do
local fields = utilities.parsers.settings_to_array(list[i])
if fields[1] then
context("field 1: %s",fields[1])
context.par()
end
end
\stopluacode
\stoptext
so:
- read in the cvs file
- split them into lines
- loop over each line
- split that line
- and mess around with the fields
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