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

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:40:00 +0000, Derek Fountain wrote:

> 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.

Nah, it is easy enough once you get it set up.  For example SQL Ledger
(http://www.sql-ledger.org) uses LaTeX to produce its invoices, statements
and reminders.  You have a CGI interface to customise these documents, and
the substitutions into the TeX templates are done with Perl.

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