[plug] Building a GUI app to generate a wordprocessed letter

[Derek Fountain]

> You could probably use LyX to generate the first cut of the document,
> export to LaTeX, and then use that as the template.  LyX will be a
> little less flexible than OOo in how the document looks, but then it's
> meant to be.  And that might be a good thing, depending on the
> document/template ratio.

The problem here is that LyX and LaTeX aren't really user facing things when 
it comes to simple letters and the like. The user here is my girlfriend who 
runs fitness classes. She just wants to be able to fill in a form when 
someone answers an advert, and have a standard letter pop out which she can 
post to them. It's currently a manual process involving lots of bits of 
paper.

She currently uses Win2K, with Wordperfect. I should be able to sway her 
towards OO if there's a reason to do so. UNIX based typesetting tools are 
probably too much of a jump.

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