Hello Rich,
Like you I ran into problems with cards and labels in LO.
Not yet found an easy method in Lyx so am using a free source app
'glabels'. Bit of a short learning curve but it provides for the standard
commercially available sizes.
Had previously used a package Delphi but have completely abandoned
working in Windows®, looked at Lazarus - and am still looking at it very
slowly.
Regards,
Gordon.
On 03/06/17 01:23, Rich Shepard wrote:
A web search tells me there are a few LaTeX templates for business
cards.
If you have experience using any of these in LyX please share your
thoughts
with me.
In the past I've used the libreoffice business card template, but
this last
time I ran into issues with font size, positioning of elements on the
card,
and not being able to edit a cell. The only downloadable document for
LO is
their 'starter guide' which is useless as a help (e.g., searching for
'business card' finds two references on how to find the 'print' button
for
cards and nothing on how to edit or work with them.) Questions posted to
their mail list go unanswered. Color me disgusted because the lack of
documentation and responsiveness of the maillist is unlike any F/OSS
maillist to which I've subscribed over the past couple of decades.
So, since I do most of my writing with LaTeX/LyX it's time to do the
business cards with them, too. I used to have them printed, but it seems
that now everyone keeps contact references digitally and not in a
Rolodex(TM) or shoe box, so printing cards here on stock equivalent to
Avery
8376 (that's for the ivory paper) makes sense to me.
Comments encouraged,
Rich
