On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:47:22 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > > I tend to agree with Steve's points. > > Joel, > > I fail to understand why you and Steve think LyX/LaTeX is not > suitable for producing an invoice/statement while a word processor > such as LibreOffice is. Time out. I didn't mention LibreOffice. I mentioned Inkscape, Plain TeX, or just plain ASCII output to the printer. I wouldn't recommend using LibreOffice for this purpose. I have this cool little merge program that prints mailing labels, with the return address in a small font and the To address in a big one. It's basically a looping program that replaces tokens in a Plain TeX file with data items, piles those one on top of another using Plain TeX to paginate, and it prints out my mailing labels. Probably took me 3 hours to write 10 years ago, still working perfectly today. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
