udono wrote: [... stuff about LaTeX and SQL-Ledger ...] > But I find a Latex solution isn't well enough for most of the users > ... some love, most hate to learn another language... agree. non-math or physics people usually don't really know/like LaTeX. But the same argument applies to RML, more so as the tiny implementation seems to differ vastly from documented behaviour at reportlabs.com. > The best way for me would be to implement a sophisticated report > parser for letters by parsing open office documents from an odt > template directly. With a wordprocessor everyone can everything do > what she want. The template editor is openoffice self, and everything > is wysiwyg. My specific problem f. ex. could be simply solved by a > macro, other problems could be solved, too. The output can be editable > odt, or direcly pdf. If there are differences between the odt and the > pdf, it is an open-office problem, and on their mailinglists are > waiting thousand experienced users. I agree, this should be the way to go. About a year ago I tried generating/manipulating open document format files from within python, had some quick success, but got stuck with cell format issues. Then I found out about tinyERP...
Getting something together like this shouldn't be too hard given that open document is pretty sane XML, and xml-transmutation with xsl is already supported (somehow). With some macro-magic, even the per-page-sum should be possible. Missing things seem to be generation of proper zip-files with proper metadata. And of course some working examples ;) Maybe I will throw something together, but don't hold your breath... regards, Robert -- Robert Schöftner LBT Schöftner Technik GmbH Fax: +43-7221-72659-44 Voice: +43-7221-72659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Humerstraße 41 4063 Hörsching Austria www.lbt-schoeftner.at <http://www.lbt-schoeftner.at> _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
